Parents Quotes · Page 65

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

— Dick Cavett

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

— Peter Shaffer

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

— Ilana Glazer

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

— Stefflon Don

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

— Xavier Becerra

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

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Divya Khosla Kumar

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I was young, my parents bought a house in Vasai, but because it was inconvenient for us all to travel, they…

— Mithila Palkar

There's a natural separation that kids have to go through with their parents, but then when you put that on top of…

— Adrianne Lenker

I always liked performing. I learnt to sing, play the piano and dance. I was good at academics too but I was…

— Catherine Tresa

“Middle-class parents are more verbal generally, their vocabulary is richer and more expressive, and they are more supportive and less controlling in…

— Karl Alexander

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your…

— Troian Bellisario

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her…

— Vladimir Putin

My parents are hard nuts. Especially my Dad. He never wanted me to struggle and he always wanted me to fight my…

— Nicolas Hamilton

My parents married in 1959 and came to Amsterdam on honeymoon. That was a huge thing, event, for them. Now my children…

— Frans Timmermans

“From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the…

— Nicole Krauss

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set…

— Sydney J. Harris

My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to…

— Diana Gabaldon

My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say…

— Douglas Brunt

Outside of my parents, it's my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff.…

— Ndamukong Suh

When society wouldn't give me an opportunity to earn a minimum wage because I was a convicted felon, Vince McMahon gave me…

— Montel Vontavious Porter

Last words of wisdom.If your parents are screewed up, don't turn into them. Use them as an example of what not to…

— Susane Colasanti

“But I'm learning it's human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the…

— Katie Kacvinsky

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

— Jim Fay

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

— Annette Bening

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

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

— Lynn Johnston

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

— Casey Wilson

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

— Oupa

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

— Karamo Brown

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

— Kiernan Shipka

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

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

— Aslı E. Perker

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

— Eleanor Tomlinson

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

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

— Zach Wahls

My mum and dad were a little like tiger parents. I hate that, but at the same time, I am a little…

— Takashi Murakami