Parents Quotes · Page 113

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

— John Gourley

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

— Dave Eggers

I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

— Jennifer Grey

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

— Lauren Oliver

We had quite an unconventional family life because my parents ran a Chinese restaurant.

— Gok Wan

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

— Neil Gaiman

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

— Ogden Nash

“Sometimes as parents, we go through things so that our children don't have to...”

— Tyreen King-Maddox

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

— John Green

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for…

— Cory Booker

It's hard to explain to my parents what's going on. You can't compare Hollywood with Cuba. I didn't even know I could…

— Ana de Armas

Our kids fear going to school in the morning, and their parents worry whether they will come home safely at the end…

— Wayne Messam

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love…

— Ruth Wilson

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that…

— Tyne Daly

Perhaps imagining ourselves as parents is not only the expression of a biological drive, but essential to understanding the scope of our…

— Anonymous

A great benefit of having parents in the same profession is if I do have a terrible audition story, I can call…

— Zoe Perry

“Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you: -Is that all you're going to do all day, sit…

— Charles Benoit

If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will…

— Neil MacGregor

When you ask most American parents why they want to have kids, it's to bring more joy into their lives. So, when…

— Jessica Valenti

I don't know, my parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy…

— Rick Famuyiwa

We came to the U.S. with $40. My parents were both professionals in China who had difficulty finding employment here. They worked…

— Leana S. Wen

We inherit a lot from our parents: mom's eyes, dad's chin, and the attitude of whichever parent isn't punishing you at the…

— Milton Berle

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to…

— Joe Bonamassa

My parents had this massive record player in the living room, a 'blue spot grand' they called it... it used up an…

— Lenny Henry

I think you get a lot of influence from what your parents play around you. So I always loved country, R&B and…

— Gabby Barrett

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

— Francis Bacon

For the parents of the youth of Africa, please give your kids a chance to realise their dreams.

— Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution.

— Dawn Foster

“I wanted to die. Where were my parents to take me in their arms, to reassure me?”

— Marjane Satrapi

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

— Mandy Patinkin

We hear from parents all the time about how much their kids learn from playing and creating on Roblox.

— David Baszucki

My parents are really supportive, really proud, but in a nice way; they're not gushing.

— Fearne Cotton

My parents would use all of their money for us to go new and exciting places, instead of a new television or…

— MO

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

— Kate Bosworth

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

— Jackie Evancho

“Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.”

— cassandra clare

My parents put cleats and shin guards on me as soon as I could remember.

— Jenna Ortega

My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

— David Lauren

My parents always taught me that my day job would never make me rich; it'd be my homework.

— Daymond John

As a parent, I understand that on an individual level parents would do anything for their child.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki