Parents Quotes · Page 114

“Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.”

— Dan Pearce

My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.

— Joel Burns

I think I embody the values of morals that my parents and life experiences have given me.

— Jason Kelce

“..."there's a special kind of hurt in learning that your parents are not the angels or saviors you wish them to be...”

— Nadia Hashimi

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

— John Rhys-Davies

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

— Julia Roberts

My parents were in the theater so I was always somewhat surrounded by it.

— Charlie Plummer

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

— Max Lucado

Since my parents both worked, they hired me when I was 11 to make dinner every night. I got a quarter a…

— Teri Hatcher

My background wasn't an issue for her or for her family. But if someone had said to my parents back in the…

— Sajid Javid

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast…

— Oscar Wilde

My parents were in the local church choir, and I used to go along and sing and play the organ at all…

— Dolores O'Riordan

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two…

— Bridgette Wilson

My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were…

— Annabeth Gish

“I’ve become one of those parents who demand their children go to the bathroom. “But I don’t have to.” “Well, go anyway.”

— Jim Gaffigan

Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals,…

— Randeep Hooda

I think that the expectation on parents has changed from giving your children shelter and love and support and guidance to this…

— Kim Brooks

Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be…

— David A. Bednar

In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they…

— William Wilberforce

My daughter went to the school, and it's a very, very progressive and liberal school, and my commencement speech was telling the…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

I was in Calcutta and my parents had an offer for me to feature in Falguni Pathak's music video, produced by Universal…

— Riya Sen

When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to…

— Herbie Hancock

I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they…

— Teri Polo

“My parents have always been racist and elitist to the extreme, like so many in their crowd. Peel away the veneer of…

— Kevin Kwan

When Parents don't get alone it hurts your fellings really bad Cause I have experimnet it

— Jocee

Both of my parents are from Upstate New York, so my dad was a Yankees fan and I grew up a Yankees…

— Corey Seager

My parents divorced when I was 12, and leading up to that it was... not without turbulence.

— Adrianne Lenker

Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.

— Josh McDowell

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

— Samuel Johnson

Parents are the very last people who ought to be allowed to have children.

— Anonymous

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

— Rod Paige

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

— Andreja Pejic

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

— Taufik Hidayat

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

— Judy Carter

It's every immigrant child's dream to tell your parents they don't have to work anymore.

— Simu Liu

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

— Louise Hart

I was always able to learn better in small classrooms. So my parents sent me to this private school called Heathwood.

— A'ja Wilson

I wish I had parents like Dora. They let that bitch go everywhere.

— Patience

My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.

— Adam DeVine

When I got my first VP title at 26, my parents finally stopped asking when I was going to get my law degree.

— Mindy Grossman