Parents Quotes · Page 115

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

— Laura Benanti

By the time a girl becomes a teenager, her parents are so old that she cannot do anything with them.

— Anonymous

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

— Otto Schily

I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half…

— Boo Weekley

I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer…

— Yvonne Orji

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?

— Will Ferrell

When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.

— Carol Ann Susi

Support the athlete, encourage the team, help the coach. That's what good track parents do.

— Don Kardong

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little…

— Sarah Shahi

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me…

— Barbara Kruger

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It…

— Richard Yates

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to…

— Tony Parsons

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

— Anonymous

Daddy knew that Jamaica wasn't the safest place for him, but my parents were very strict about our schooling and they didn't…

— Cedella Marley

In Nigeria, you have to have sports channels to watch that but not everyone can afford it. My parents couldn't afford that…

— Odion Ighalo

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to…

— Ally Condie

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that…

— Leo Buscaglia

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This…

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into…

— Stephen King

“Parents can project into the future; their young children, anchored in the present, have a much harder time of it. This difference…

— Jennifer Senior

My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to…

— Tate Donovan

My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a…

— Billy Crudup

“Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and…

— Dan Pearce

My parents were a little more on the hippie spectrum of Christianity - they weren't liberal Christians by any means, they were…

— Weyes Blood

The 1st half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second boyfriends, and the 3rd our children

— Anonymous

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

— Daniel Handler

Children won't just love to read. Children learn what they live, parents are responsible for instilling that in them.

— Anonymous

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

— Bill Walton

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

— Bill Cosby

My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.

— Leila Slimani

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

— Frank Pittman

Apart from my parents and coach Tarak Sinha, my wife has been a big support, and so has been my two daughters.

— Shikhar Dhawan

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

— Bill Cosby

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

— Hayden Panettiere

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

— Anonymous

“When you're a kid, you tend to see the best in your mates. Because at least they're not as bad as your…

— Camilla Way

If Twitter and Facebook were school subjects, my parents would be so proud of me.

— Anonymous

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.

— Richard Simmons

My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.

— GRiZ

I know there are five stages of grief, but my parents raised me to pull up my socks when times get tough.

— Tom Steyer