Parents Quotes · Page 54

“My parents...well, they mostly just drink and disappear. That's kinda what they're good at.”

— Moïra Fowley-Doyle

My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be.

— Carole King

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

— Alden Ehrenreich

'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not…

— Viggo Mortensen

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“In the second month you are, in the words of surviving parents, “over the hump.”

— William Sears

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

— Carles Puyol

“Most parents can’t give their children a lavish inheritance, but every parent will leave a personal legacy.”

— Reggie Joiner

I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in…

— Pauly Shore

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most…

— Terry McMillan

You know how it is: you're a kid, and you see your parents do something, you tend not to want to follow…

— Brian Ortega

When parents or gamers ask me, 'What's the best game to play?' I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing…

— Jane McGonigal

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that…

— Marilyn Manson

So that is a shift I've seen from growing up: watching my parents feel oppressed by the hearing man, to now deaf…

— Paul Raci

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my…

— Tatiana Maslany

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped…

— John Updike

I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else…

— Yolanda Adams

Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because…

— Stephanie Coontz

I had very little going for me as a kid except for the fact that I had demanding parents and was very…

— Andrew Yang

My parents were Northern Ireland Labour party people. We read the 'Guardian' and the 'New Statesman,' listened to the BBC. The house…

— Tom Paulin

“Every human relationship begins with a coincidence. Even the most fundamental relationship - that of parent and child - begins entirely with…

— Zack Love

Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully. I remember…

— Su-chin Pak

When the Beatles hit in the early '60s, I think the objection was more to the hair than the music. The McCartney…

— Rick Moranis

When my parents realized that what I liked was fashion, they gave me good advice. I remember my father telling me that…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

My parents met when they were 16 and bonded over the antiwar movement.

— Corey Stoll

Mum comes in and says 'I'm working out,' and she'll just be standing there naked doing a dance.

— Kelly Osbourne

I try to have lunch or dinner with my parents on the weekends.

— Nicole Seah

I believe that you need your parents the most. That's the most important thing.

— Neena Gupta

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

— David Copperfield

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

— Harry Mathews

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

— Benigno Aquino III

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

— Kate DiCamillo

I abide to God's will and I feel that from up above, God and my parents have guided my career.

— Vicente Fernandez

My parents let me and my brother do what we wanted to do as long as we did it the right way.

— Ryan Zimmerman

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they…

— Michelle Visage

Around the house my parents played a lot of R&B and soul; Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige and Kirk Franklin.

— Griff

It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful.

— Jimmy Somerville

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

— Howard Schultz

When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them.

— Danny Masterson

As parents we all have that underlying guilt about how much time we give to our careers.

— Chris Harris