Parents Quotes · Page 104

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

— Plato

If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say,…

— Juan Pablo Galavis

Back in the early '40s, they used to call Down syndrome infants and babies 'mongoloids.' It's very hard for parents.

— Chris Burke

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.

— Bo Sanchez

My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.

— Eileen Atkins

Chinese parents always think you can do better. But it comes from wanting you to succeed.

— Alvin Leung

I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!

— Ari Graynor

Parents: you do realize one day you will have to pay for all your own things me: yes but today is not…

— Rajat Dogra

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared…

— Caroline Kennedy

There are many talented and smart kids from underprivileged backgrounds but don't get the same opportunity as a kid that has got…

— Leon Edwards

I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost…

— Carine Roitfeld

I think what's universal about the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' is every one has grown up and done something that was…

— Kelly Asbury

I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I…

— Leighton Meester

When you know your mom and dad are doing things that are not idyllic, as far as your desire to defer to…

— Jason Bateman

I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have…

— Justin Bieber

“That’s what parents often do, I think, we persuade ourselves we’re doing everything for the sake of the child. It’s too painful…

— Fredrik Backman

My parents were early adopters, and I've been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their…

— Amy Chua

When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more…

— Sandra Dodd

Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less,…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

My parents always swore that in my childhood they had to let me win at board games. If, by the lucky stroke…

— Koren Zailckas

My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always…

— Lucas Hedges

“It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot…

— Katherine Min

“As a child you don’t question your parents’ choices. You accept them. They”

— Bruce Springsteen

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

— Sarita Choudhury

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

— Billy Graham

I am very privileged to have the parents and family that I do.

— Vivek Oberoi

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

— Aesop

My parents were a formidable team and worked flat-out all the time. I learnt so much from them about business and life.

— David Coulthard

It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

— Dane DeHaan

“For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

— Gilbert Highet

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

— Leslye Walton

My parents were born abroad. I was born in France, but I feel comfortable everywhere - I don't see the borders.

— JR

My movies should be such that kids, grandparents and parents are able to watch it together.

— Pulkit Samrat

My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

— Uzo Aduba

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

— David Guetta

My parents always say I have really good legs. Ive worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my…

— Samaire Armstrong