Parents Quotes · Page 53

I have been incredibly lucky. My parents are actors; they've been the safety blanket around me.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

“While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old.”

— Aslı E. Perker

The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.

— Zach Wahls

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

— Helen McCrory

To be quite honest, my fans growing up were my friends' parents. Like, 30-plus was, like, 'Mad Men' age group.

— Kiernan Shipka

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

— Karamo Brown

I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.

— Yance Ford

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

— Francis Chan

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards…

— Mike Mills

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey…

— Joyce Meyer

I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would…

— Holly Marie Combs

Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be…

— Charlie Day

I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring…

— Benigno Aquino III

I grew up in New Jersey, but my parents are from out west. They moved the family to New Jersey when my…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what…

— Laura Mvula

Like many in academia and in the development industry, I am among globalization's greatest beneficiaries - those who are able to sell…

— Angus Deaton

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to…

— Ernest Istook

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got…

— Julia Davis

And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him…

— Bible

They're not allowed to talk about it at school and they maybe feel uncomfortable talking about it with their parents. But instead…

— Sarah Steele

Some of our developers are starting to make $20,000 a month, which is really significant... We're getting developers who are 14 and…

— David Baszucki

I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the…

— James D. Watson

We were the only black family in my neighborhood for many years. Wherever we lived, we were often the only black family,…

— Roxane Gay

I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a…

— Mindy Kaling

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths

— Lynn Johnston

Until you can watch Porn with your parents, don't come here and tell me Everything Is possible

— Oupa

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

— Casey Wilson

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

— Angelina Jolie

It's important not to forget what parents did for you, what friends are.

— Sergei Polunin

Even though we were middle-class, my parents always got me what I wanted.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

“Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later.”

— Jim Fay

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.

— Joyce Carol Oates

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.

— Annette Bening

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

— Chelsea Clinton

It's nice to have cool parents. They're cool with everything.

— Ilana Glazer

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

— Peter Shaffer

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.

— Xavier Becerra

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

— Stefflon Don

When your parents give you a chore,then you six more to come :P

— Blu-boo

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

— Dick Cavett