Parents Quotes · Page 130

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

— Alice Miller

Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

— Jim Flaherty

I know that my parents are with me. My mom's name was Renee Stause, and my dad's name was Jeff Stause.

— Chrishell Stause

“Your parents thought about it, and the name they came up with for their child was Bruiser?” “Aren’t”

— T.S. Joyce

My parents were passionate about the ballet. They always played ballet music at home.

— Arlene Phillips

“I’m glad your parents will be at the wedding. It’s important for you to see them,”

— Anonymous

I had parents who taught me ethics that I didn't know they were teaching me at the time.

— Bill Duke

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

— Charles Barkley

My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city…

— Eric Kandel

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right.…

— Richard Pryor

My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.

— Joey Badass

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are,…

— Henry Cavill

In Australia we had the Australian stolen generation of our voting rights. I think a lot of people think its a distant…

— Madeleine Madden

It took me a while to accept everything, but I am so grateful for the way my parents raised me. It's my…

— Karen Bardsley

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say…

— Rupert Penry-Jones

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle…

— Roman Payne

It's like, remember who you always were, where you came from, who your parents were, how they raised you. Because that authentic…

— Michelle Obama

I guess it's because I do have a younger audience that, you know, parents worry about the role model thing. But when…

— Britney Spears

For me, every show that's about teachers - and there's been a number of them - they're like misfits who hate the…

— Adam F. Goldberg

My father was in record promotion in Los Angeles. He worked for Mercury Records, Capitol Records, and RCA Records. My parents divorced…

— Scott Borchetta

“Different people do different things. And no one-way of plugging in or serving in the church is more beneficial or valuable than…

— Amy Fenton Lee

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was…

— Ayelet Waldman

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A…

— Rudy Boesch

Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.

— Tim Allen

Why is it that my parents decide to walk in on a sex scene on every movie I watch?

— Ella

There are millions of working parents out there just keeping their heads above water.

— Jo Frost

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

— Michelle Williams

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.

— Gaspar Noe

“Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they’re never really gone.”

— Jonathan Tropper

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

— Dorothy Hamill

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

— Walker Hayes

I'm still trying to figure out how to have an adult relationship with my parents.

— Kumail Nanjiani

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

— Shannon Woodward

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

— Doris Lessing

Raffi Cavoukian was born in Cairo in 1948 and moved with his Armenian parents to Toronto when he was 10.

— Sheila Heti

My parents have been a great strength to me. They never forced me into anything, and I have the final say.

— Meghana Raj

Like every parent, my parents too took a lot of effort to give us the best, and to keep things as normal…

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I realized I was the one doing all the training, earning the money, and my parents were living off of me.

— Dominique Moceanu

I'm happy to have represented England at youth level but I'm also proud of my Nigerian heritage from my parents.

— Bukayo Saka