Parents Quotes · Page 118

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

— Neil Patrick Harris

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

— Chuck Palahniuk

When you see the commitment my parents exhibited... it was not for fame or fortune.

— Yolanda King

Parents need their children as much as children need their parents.

— Paul Carvel

I always wonder what my life would be like if I had parents like the other kids who went to my high…

— Stormy Daniels

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

— Rand Paul

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

— Rita Mae Brown

“Many of us are failed secret attempts to keep our parents together.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love is an eternal feeling, and it is nothing wrong if you are in love with someone. I'm always in love, whether…

— Naga Chaitanya

All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for…

— Estelle Ramey

My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like "I don't…

— Pete Wentz

I was a huge fan of the Incredible Hulk as a child. My parents nicknamed me Hulk as they thought I resembled…

— Hulk

Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage…

— Noreena Hertz

We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight,…

— Pedro Pascal

I was angry because I see other kids with things that I wanted: they had good parents, they had clothes, they always…

— Claressa Shields

I'm sure a lot of people go into this industry quite blind as to what it will be like. There's a lot…

— Phoebe Dynevor

“Maybe we don’t really grow up until our parents die, she thought. Maybe her infant memory was forever looking to Zod and…

— Donia Bijan

With the football stuff like handling the fame, the attention, my parents definitely helped me with that as far as keeping a…

— Patrick Chung

Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a…

— Candice Olson

In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to…

— Gretchen Carlson

“We feel stuck in a rut, unable to say ‘no’ to our parents, unable to put an end to their controlling behavior,…

— Lukasz Laniecki

One of the things we have to remember about the poorest countries in the world is that parents, extremely poor parents, are…

— Gene Sperling

When you're a kid, you learn whatever your parents think until you start taking in media. Because all your friends are your…

— Lucy Dacus

“We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved…

— Sylvia Harney

I was very lucky, my parents were very encouraging, and both my grandmothers. They had exquisite taste.

— David Linley

My parents worked really hard - my mum was a cleaner and my dad a joiner - so holidays were rare for…

— A. J. Odudu

You just don't pick up family values, unless your parents teach you and let you know exactly what they expect.

— Brian Lara

My family and parents were very influential in my skating career.

— Nathan Chen

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

— Sally Pearson

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

— Madonna Ciccone

My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.

— Liu Wen

My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class.

— David Starkey

I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.

— Lucy McBath

Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

— Katy Perry

Kids really need love from two parents. It doesn't matter if it's a mom and a mom, or a dad and a…

— Brendon Ayanbadejo

As a 16-year-old boy, to leave your parents, leave your surroundings, it makes you grow a bit faster.

— Serge Gnabry

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

— Anonymous

When I'm married, I will never fight in front of my kids because I know I hated seeing that shit.

— Anonymous

I don't want my own life to be solely about preserving my parents' lives.

— Nicole Fosse