Parents Quotes · Page 44

I was blessed to grow up with parents who weren't enamored of show business.

— Skyler Samuels

My parents were pretty open-minded people, but I think leaving them at a young age really made me grow up fast.

— Ryan Bingham

If my parents are at the meet, I'll try to look and just kind of spot them out in the stands.

— Caeleb Dressel

I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.

— Amy Chua

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

— Drew Barrymore

A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.

— Jennifer Damiano

Parents and others caring for family members deserve fair treatment on the job.

— Randi Zuckerberg

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

— Jon Voight

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by…

— Bill Bradley

Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug…

— David Elkind

When we're at home, my parents tell me what I have to do. You know - Do this, do that,' just normal…

— Carlos Alcaraz

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they…

— John Major

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

— Cory Monteith

It is said God could not be everywhere and that's why he made parents. Take care of the little gift given to…

— Anonymous

My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as…

— Joseph Mazzello

“The role of the parents is not to become the child, but to provide guidance to it, to walk it through the…

— Lamine Pearlheart

My parents are very middle class. They don't have all this money to just be throwing around, but they would always give…

— Nate Bargatze

My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I…

— Harry West

“when affluent, educated parents decide to homeschool, public schools lose out on involved PTA parents and capable school-improvement advocates. Or when parents…

— Emily Matchar

When my parents were like, 'We're going to the Northwest,' I thought, 'You've gotta be kidding me.' I was so depressed. The…

— Bonnie McKee

“K.T. sighs. “If you mess with her head, I’ll personally hunt you down, but otherwise, good luck. If you can get her…

— Erica Cameron

I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents…

— Susan Orlean

I've grown up a lot. I've become more independent. I can talk to my parents more like friends. When I was going…

— Carrie Underwood

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I…

— Christopher Durang

I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.

— Ram Charan

“Be the kind of person your parents would be proud to know, even if they weren't related to you.”

— E.J. Hagadorn

Children may not inherit their parents' talent,but they absorb their values.

— Anonymous

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

— Judy Sheindlin

No matter how old we are, or whether they're dead or alive, we always want our parents to be proud of us.

— Laura S

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

— Alan Guth

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this…

— Bob Weir

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

— Mamie Gummer

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

— John Updike

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

— January Jones

I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents

— Tina Louise

I saw a lot of operas from backstage and watched a lot of rehearsals - my parents were singers.

— Rosamund Pike

I refused to let my parents take my hat off when I went to bed.

— Ed Henry

I wish we lived in a world where all kids were loved by their parents how I was and am every day.

— Lizzie Velasquez

You know, all 'The Karate Kid' fans from the original are parents these days. I think it's a cool thing.

— William Zabka

“Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents?”

— Jeffrey Eugenides