Parents Quotes · Page 124

The will of Virginians was clear: Parents should have a say in education.

— Glenn Youngkin

The least anyone can do is pay attention to their parents and people who are elder to them.

— Pankaj Kapur

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.

— Maurice Sendak

My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

— James Blunt

There is no guilty child without at least a fraction of fault belonging to his parents, to his teachers.

— Mariana Fulger

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

— Amy Winehouse

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

— Harold Ramis

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

— Michael Jordan

Parents who achieve a successful work-life balance don't live and breathe to make their kids happy. Instead, they strive to raise independent…

— Amy Morin

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to…

— Robert Smith

Being acknowledged and appreciated by your child and stepchild is the greatest gift for all the hard work we put in as…

— Yolanda Hadid

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have…

— Christy Turlington

It's inevitable that we'll have some form of designer children, fueled not just by the science but by parents' hard-wired desire to…

— Michio Kaku

I spent summers with my mother's parents in Arkansas, where religion felt very present. My grandmother was Baptist, and my grandfather was…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we…

— Maya Lin

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and…

— Harlan Coben

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of…

— Nicholas Kristof

In Berkeley, California is no sense of the "white way being the right way." Parents also come in every variety - mixed…

— Julia Scheeres

My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was…

— Gina Torres

Teachers give so much to the future and to youth. So, when you see somebody make that type of sacrifice towards work…

— Common

My parents have worked their asses off their whole entire lives, they still do, and I never felt like anything would be…

— Michelle Monaghan

I got the Fire Stick as a gift at the Amazon Emmys after-party in 2015, and because I haven't lived in a…

— Hari Nef

When I first made the team I didn't even know there was a national team. So to meit was all new. When…

— Kristine Lilly

[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of…

— C. Sommerville

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

— David Keith

Imagine having Ahab for a father, and Jezebel for a mother.Only God can help your future.

— Wordfaith3

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

— Anthony Hopkins

I hate when my parents rush me to get ready and then when I am, they're not.

— Anonymous

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

— Robert Breault

For about four years, all I did was watch television. I suppose my parents should have stopped me.

— Stephen Hough

My parents both played tennis in South Africa. I learned from them.

— Ilana Kloss

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

— Maurice Sendak

“Parents, don’t invest in your child's teaching; invest in your child's learning.”

— Steve Ahn

If at first you do succeed - it's probably your parents' business'.

— Anonymous

Good kids want to stay where their parents can see them play.

— Mack Brown

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

— David Russell

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

— Vaclav Klaus

Believe it or not, the worst thing to hear from your parents is 'I'm Disappointed in you.'

— Anonymous

“Any parents are as ordinary human beings as others, making them angels or even more is up to their next generation.”

— Sandeep Sahajpal

Public service has allowed me to put values my parents taught me into action.

— Tom Perez