Parents Quotes · Page 125

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy.

— Maurice Sendak

I was an only child. Both my parents came from working-class families in Hackney, east London.

— Tony Robinson

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

— Sarah Dessen

I bought my parents a house. Then I bought myself a Rolex. My brother forced me to do it, but I'm glad…

— Blake Griffin

Parents who are always giving their children nothing but the best usually wind up with nothing but the worst.

— Anonymous

If a child has divorced parents, the best thing you can do is help add stability to their lives.

— Chrishell Stause

When I go home to visit my parents, my mom is your typical Mexican loving mom. She wants to cook and feed…

— Eva Marie

One of the first things one notices in a backward country is that children are still obeying their parents.

— Anonymous

There is nothing more valuable than great classroom instruction. But let's stop putting the whole burden on teachers. We also need better…

— Thomas Friedman

My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which…

— Chelsea Clinton

There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle…

— Gagan Narang

I feel like I'm really grateful that my parents chose Canada, and I feel like there's open arms here, and it's very…

— Jessie Reyez

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting.…

— Sofia Coppola

There's nothing I missed out on. I do everything a normal kid does. My parents keep me grounded. I still play sports.…

— Khleo

Both my parents ran small businesses and it undoubtedly made me the person I am today because I've only ever known them…

— Sara Davies

My mortal Guru was my Irish-Christian brother who taught me how to do everything and gave me my moral values. My spiritual…

— Victor Banerjee

My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times,…

— Roy Choi

My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like,…

— Emma Stone

As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy…

— W. Bruce Cameron

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand…

— Gary Locke

Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as…

— Charlotte Mason

Every Olympics, when I was growing up and playing basketball, my parents and I made it a point to sit down and…

— Christian Laettner

While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research…

— Stacey Abrams

If I look back down the years, how I was treated as a kid, if it wasn't for the teachers at my…

— Mo Farah

Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love food.

— Ming-Na Wen

Dear parents, we know money doesnt grow on trees, thats why we are asking you for it.

— Anonymous

“I always thought my parents could fix anything. Now it's my turn. Dear God, how did this happen?”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didn't really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

— Bo Sanchez

“Do your best for your parents. If you don’t, one day you will regret it.”

— Debasish Mridha

I didn't have any singing background. Against the wishes of my parents, I got into making music.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Don't miss the oppurtunity,to honor and obey our parents,,that God given to us For they'll gone someday

— Mariane Corbito

My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.

— David Einhorn

“Here, two parents sill young enough to believe that life holds only one close call per customer.”

— Dani Shaprio

I loved my parents to bits but they were from a very different generation.

— Tony Adams

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

— Bill Gates

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

— Hyman Rickover

“When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton”

— Peggy Toney Horton

My parents did not have a better life, they went to Australia to provide opportunities for me to have a better life.

— Angelos Postecoglou

We grew up in the South, but in a very liberal household - both our parents are from the Northeast.

— Martie Maguire

Parents coming home tired and still having time for their kids. Thats who I respect.

— Anonymous