Parents Quotes · Page 111

“Bravery doesn't always look like you think it will. And it's never too late to stand up for the right thing.”

— Brandy Colbert

Parents will always be your only true fans who want the best for you.

— Ananya Panday

My parents were activists and my mother was hugely involved with the anti-Vietnam War protests.

— Rosanna Arquette

My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.

— Jack Kilmer

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

— Geraldine Brooks

My grandparents had 15 children, my parents had 2 children and I won't be having any child.

— Shraddha Srinath

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

— Salman Rushdie

My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED.

— Jared Isaacman

Being bipolar, I was so depressed as a little kid and so angry. You just think you're such a bad person, and…

— Chappell Roan

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the…

— Haim Ginott

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a…

— Will Packer

In 2005, the last year of his life, Ahmad Abu Adass was 22 and still living with his parents in Beirut, Lebanon.…

— Ronen Bergman

I am a wild orchid of comedy, so I can only do well under specific conditions... There are people who I think…

— Maria Bamford

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were…

— Rachel Johnson

My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice, an ocean of alarm bells so someone wouldn't steal the…

— Clint Smith

I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got…

— J. R. Smith

As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere…

— Michael Mullen

At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very…

— Ravi Subramanian

Through it all, the bad and the horrible, you taught me to hold my chin up high and walk with my back…

— Lily Cruz

My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of…

— Lawrence Osborne

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on…

— Caroline Corr

It's a tender and complicated dance, watching our parents age. We become protective in ways we never were before, and we study…

— Patti Davis

My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an…

— Maz Jobrani

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to…

— Brian J. White

I'm a Brazilian - full blood, parents born and raised, and I lived there for a little bit - but I didn't…

— Camila Mendes

It's impossible to know who Donald might have been under different circumstances and with different parents.

— Mary L. Trump

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

— Maya Angelou

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

— Margaret Cho

My parents stayed together for forty years. But that was out of spite.

— Woody Allen

Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget that our parents are growing old

— Lena

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.

— Donna Rice Hughes

Respect for one's parents is the highest duty of civil life.

— Proverb

I'm an international baby. I'm happy my parents decided I should be worldwide.

— Stefflon Don

My parents did not trust me. I had to pee in a cup every night.

— Kelly Osbourne

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

— Lawrence Osborne

My parents tend to forget that they were once teenagers too.

— Anonymous

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

— Richard Avedon

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

— Harlan Coben

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My parents don't love me much. But they have always shown they can die for me.

— Terry Mark