Parents Quotes · Page 72

I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

— Oscar Isaac

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.

— David Blunkett

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

— Henry Rollins

I see my parents getting older and I think 'How can I prevent what is going to happen to me?'

— Emma Willis

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did…

— Colin Angle

Parents sleeping = You being quiet as a mouse. You sleeping = Parents decide to vacuum for 2 hours.

— Anonymous

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

— David Beckham

“We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in...”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

When I look at young kids today I just don't believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they're suicidal. They cannot…

— Jackie Chan

The When Women Succeed, America Succeeds economic agenda will enable women to achieve greater economic security, raise wages for women and their…

— Sander Levin

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and…

— Diane Abbott

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest…

— Sandra Bernhard

My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put…

— Tuppence Middleton

“While their parents knew a different life and would never really feel at home again without it, their kids had never known…

— Thomas L. Friedman

Over the years, I think, more and more, I've come to recognize that my parents - not in a didactic or explicit…

— Richard Cordray

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up,…

— Ibn Warraq

One of the reasons we experience so much difficulty with our gifts is that parents have thought their chief function in life…

— Elizabeth O'Connor

I think a lot of people who become music fans have that moment where they break from their parents' music, they break…

— Ben Gibbard

But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against, go…

— David Axelrod

“If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can't buy you clothes, they're so poor and they make all…

— Augusten Burroughs

“One dog got makeup applied to its face, lipstick and blue eye shadow. It was a white-faced dog, so the makeup showed…

— Lydia Millet

“Sometimes we mistake patience for weakness, but the patient person often realizes that it's much more important for another person to discover…

— Tom Walsh

I think when I came into marriage -- especially when you've had divorced parents like myself... You'd want to try even harder…

— Princess Diana

I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain…

— Bruce Springsteen

My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.

— Eileen Pollack

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

— Ivan Turgenev

My parents are wonderful, and I'm really lucky - but my mom has always been almost exclusively a right-brained person.

— Brandon Boyd

I'm thankful I don't have parents that I feel I need to get their attention. They've always been there for me.

— Cierra Ramirez

Before marriage, her parents wonder when he will go home; after marriage, she wonders when he will come home.

— Vikrant Parsai

Credit for my success should go to my parents and my late guru Mandolin Srinivas garu.

— Devi Sri Prasad

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

— Bible

“Maybe my parents had it right, and all kids need is love, fresh air and a bit of healthy neglect.”

— Ann Cleeves

I appreciate my parents for everything they instilled in me and my brothers.

— Thundercat

If Tumblr and Twitter were school subjects, my parents would love me.

— Jenni Monroe

After all the sacrifices and studying so hard,this achieve is for yourself and for your parents.

— Mitch Alapan

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

— Raymond Duncan

Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

— Anonymous

I was a kid with a lot of dreams. And my parents encouraged me in every possible way.

— Srinidhi Shetty

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

— Laura Fraser

My parents have - my dad has managed to succeed at his craft. So, you know, it's not like I was struggling…

— Dan Levy