Parents Quotes · Page 75

I have skated when I was a child, but it was just with our friends and our parents, no special technique.

— Saara Aalto

Announcement from the proud parents of a baby daughter. We have skirted the issue.

— Earl Wilson

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

— Vincent Cassel

“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've come from an area where people's parents aren't so financially secure, so I link my origins to that struggle.

— Bugzy Malone

When I was much younger, I used to practice my Oscar speech in the mirror. I used to beg my parents to…

— Sasha Spielberg

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

— Bill Moyers

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards…

— Mark Hunt

If there's any advice I could give younger people it's listen to your parents. As I get older I'm finding out just…

— Anonymous

I just know who I am as a person, comfortable in my own skin. And I guess that's just a testament to…

— Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance,…

— Tino Sehgal

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as…

— Fred Rogers

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always…

— Claire Danes

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up…

— A. Scott Berg

Do you know that simple phone call can make them happy. Parents, they didnt leave you when you were young, so dont…

— Ritu Ghatourey

My parents are both artists, they had a theater company in the Bay Area for a long time called Virago. I never…

— Brigette Lundy-Paine

If you want to get to know somebody you don't ask other people: 'How is she?' You talk to the person herself.…

— Angelina Maccarone

“Children lose contact with their parents, and vice versa, when there is no present living moment in the family. You change careers,…

— Patsy Rodenburg

My parents were not at all backstage parents. We had none of that in the family. It was just very clear right…

— John Michael Higgins

Television was restricted by my parents. They encouraged reading more than anything. It wasn't done in a let's-get-educated kind of way, it…

— Vic Reeves

I grew up on the north side of Chicago, in West Rogers Park, an overwhelmingly Jewish neighborhood. When I was 13, my…

— Scott Turow

I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor.…

— Dominique McElligott

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But…

— Cody Linley

I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I…

— Kate Atkinson

I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents.

— Laura Dern

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

— Anonymous

Apparently, I used to bite, scratch and growl at people when I was young, so my parents named me 'Tiger.'

— Tiger Shroff

Listen to your parents; respect them. They are well wishers.

— Sridevi

My parents told me if I wanted to fight, they wouldn't support me.

— Matt Riddle

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

— Mike Berenstain

“I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.”

— Victor Borge

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

— Geneva Carr

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

— Sophie Kinsella

My parents never gave me a nickname. But for my friends, I am everything from 'Nushki' to 'Nusheshwar.'

— Anushka Sharma

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

— Ozzy Osbourne

I feel like life would have been easier if I had just listened to my parents. You live and learn on your…

— Anonymous

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

— Greg Norman

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

— Joan Jett

My parents made me who I am. They are kind, generous, loving people.

— Danny Welbeck

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

— Arthur Rimbaud