Parents Quotes · Page 49

I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.

— Misty Copeland

My parents taught me that it is my responsibility to make sacrifices for those after me.

— Bill Duke

I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.

— Adam Lambert

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

— Chris Martin

That awkward moment when your parents ask if you like anyone.

— Anonymous

“And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.”

— Tamara Ireland Stone

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

— Mike Birbiglia

“What must it be like to want your parents' happiness instead of resenting them for it?”

— Samantha Young

I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past…

— Carlos Carvalhal

I feel for all the parents whose babies just keep waking up for years. My heart and back go out to you…

— Constance Marie

Parents are teachers as much as caregivers, and our children learn to navigate life's challenges by watching us. Kids can get a…

— Rachel Simmons

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I…

— Dominique Moceanu

Since my childhood, I was that girl who would walk into a movie hall starry-eyed having this hunch that I will be…

— Amrita Rao

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without…

— Heart Evangelista

“If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors.…

— Charles Portis

My parents aren't the demographic for a lot of things I do. If I did a stand-up show, and I saw 62-year-old…

— Kumail Nanjiani

I know I'm going to send my three kids off to college someday. I know my parents will pass away someday. It's…

— Lee Unkrich

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the…

— Liz Murray

As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

For anybody out there... who are parents who are taking care of an elderly parent or an adult child with disabilities, they…

— Brian Deese

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to…

— Rick Pitino

“Our parents' love is not some grand passion, there are no swoons of lust, no ball gowns and tuxedos, but here is…

— Eleanor Brown

I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler…

— Jill Sobule

“French parents don't worry that they're going to damage their kids by frustrating them. To the contrary, they think their kids will…

— Pamela Druckerman

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

— James Merrill

My parents were super busy, with my dad working at Delta and my mom at a bank, but our lives became tennis.

— Christopher Eubanks

I do not permit anyone to offend the values I have received from my parents.

— Paolo di Canio

Parents: They want you to act older...but treat you like a kid...

— Jerett Parker

All of us -- parents, schools, communities and government -- share responsibility to keep kids safe.

— Bill Clinton

It's important for parents to be strict if you want the kids to succeed.

— Geeta Phogat

Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

— Jenny Downham

In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.

— Elizabeth Kolbert

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

— Gwen Stefani

If Twitter, YouTube and Google were part of my school subjects, my parents would be so proud of me.

— Anonymous

Parents would rather have their son get all-state than his team win the state championship.

— Don Meyer

My parents had lots of parties. They were hopelessly bohemian. They were just 18 when they had me.

— Noel Fielding

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

— Sienna Miller

Relatives are the worst friends, said the fox as the dogs took after him

— Danish Proverb

I hate when my parents never let me go anywhere and then ask me why I'm always on the computer.

— Tanya Bianco

My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.

— Miranda Lambert