Parents Quotes

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

I'm still really close with everyone at home and their parents - and their brothers and sisters. I was so, so, so lucky to grow up as part of a community and I don't take that for granted. I try very hard to stay part of it.

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I'd get ready by myself. I'd set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up.

The 1960s were big for folk music, and the Kingston Trio led the way. They were the ones who started it all. The music was fresh and alive. College kids loved it and their parents did, too.

My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.

At the federal level, we must help, not hinder, local school boards, parents, teachers and administrators as they make decisions about educating our children.

My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

I wasn't sure how my dad would react. There was an agent sitting behind them and he told me he was embarrassed to watch the scenes. My parents have always been very open. They trust my decisions.

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.