Parents Quotes · Page 51

I'd go grocery-shopping with my parents and the old-school nuns would be there collecting money. It freaked me out.

— Steve Harwell

“When I was a boy, I passed a homeless man, drunk and begging on a street corner. My father, sensing my disgust,…

— Blake Crouch

“It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot…

— Katherine Min

When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.

— Winona Ryder

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it…

— Princess Diana

I feel like my life experience is that of an outsider. Let me explain: my parents are from Panama, and they moved…

— J. August Richards

Child psychology used to be something parents used; today they submit to it.

— Anonymous

Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children…

— Clive Davis

I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.

— Keerthy Suresh

My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.

— Hideo Kojima

My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.

— Murray Head

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

— John Oates

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.

— Michael Connelly

My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.

— Rachel Riley

My parents always told me never be a follower, always be a leader. It's very difficult to do, to step out and…

— Jalen Brunson

For sure, my parents knew what I had to eat and how to prepare for training sessions and what behaviour was needed…

— Leroy Sane

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

— Kevin Young

When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a…

— Frances McDormand

I've watched parents sometimes on the touchlines at youth games, and they are screaming and shouting, which is not the way to…

— Chris Coleman

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

— Jeffrey Kluger

Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.

— Chris Long

If children are expected to be honest, parents must be honest. If children are expected to be virtuous, parents must be virtuous.…

— James E. Faust

I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't…

— Derek Jeter

I'll always be a Georgia girl at heart, but I live in Los Angeles full time. My parents still live in Georgia,…

— Melissa Ordway

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go…

— Jacques Pepin