Parents Quotes · Page 71

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

— Dick Clark

My parents never sat down to teach me anything; they lived exemplary life to set a lesson for me.

— Jaya Bachchan

My parents never went to college. My dad started as an hourly worker.

— Anthony Scaramucci

“Because they're parents. It's in the job description. Must drive minivans. Must be immune to fashion. Must be freaks.”

— Sarah Ockler

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

— Ahmet Zappa

Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity..

— Ray Romano

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

— Dennis Prager

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.

— Alice Dreger

I really, really wanted to be an Olympian. My parents knew about this dream of mine, and they suggested I try my…

— Elana Meyers

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability…

— Dakota Fanning

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

“The rejection of your identity by your pastor or your parents is not a rejection of you, the person. Only you as…

— Ian Thomas Malone

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God…

— William Jennings Bryan

If you and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having…

— Bible

To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,'…

— Francesco Totti

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm…

— Jordin Sparks

When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who…

— Tina Turner

Both my parents are working class and filled me with the things you need to get along; not giving up, working hard,…

— Jude Bellingham

I know other people who have started their kids in tackle football for, like, four- and five-year-olds. So I think it's up…

— Marc Veasey

I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly…

— Hallie Ephron

Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in…

— Michelle Obama

“When I got to the States and started going to an American high school, which I did for an extremely short time,…

— Michael Gruber

I've been singing since I was 5 years old. Not in-the-church-thing kind of way. I always made up music. Since I was…

— Cassandra Wilson

“It's like they think we're still five years old, coloring in kindergarten, and all the kids get cupcakes whether its their birthday…

— Coert Voorhees

I think it's so wonderful to show a child of immigrant parents who's proud of their culture and doesn't neglect it.

— Iman Vellani

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

— Amit Kalantri

I first told my parents that I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 3 years old.

— Anne McClain

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about seven.

— David Beckham

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

— Jennifer Damiano

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

— Sydney J. Harris

“Parents aren't supposed to cry. Or get scared. Or lie. Right? I thought I knew all the rules. But there are no…

— Aimee Friedman

When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

— Mason Cooley

My parents did a great job of raising me and my brother. Very supportive parents.

— Tim Ferriss

As you get older you realize that the 'Cool' parents were actually just bad parents.

— Anonymous

My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.

— Sam Robards

Parents who tell the WHOLE family your fucking business when you do something wrong !!!!!

— Anonymous

When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage.

— Esther McVey

Both of my parents have loved and supported me from my very first strides.

— Hilary Knight

My parents, I've always said, are two of the hardest working people I know.

— Blake Griffin

My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.

— Rodney Crowell