Parents Quotes · Page 71

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

— Asha Parekh

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

— Richard Grenell

Everyone loves to praise me on my character, which I'm so thankful for. But that's a true testament speaking to my parents,…

— Saquon Barkley

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy…

— Beth Macy

Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty…

— Matteo Manassero

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

— Laura Benanti

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

— Anonymous

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a…

— Will Packer

My parents have tried not to intrude. They kind of stayed apart from my gymnastics but are very supportive, and that's very…

— Laurie Hernandez

I wrote a list of reasons demanding why I needed an agent when I was like 11 and gave it to my parents.

— Rachel Sennott

I have immigrant, African parents. They would say, in their Nigerian accents, 'So you want to be a jester?' And I was…

— Yvonne Orji

I get parents under the microscope and teach calming techniques for those moments when the heart races.

— Jo Frost

I always wanted to make my parents feel proud of me.

— Ronan Keating

“Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't…

— Cooper Davis

“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months…

— William S. Burroughs

To me, Dan Evans is an example of somebody that puts the clock back a little bit and tells everybody: 'Listen, tennis…

— Mats Wilander

I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the…

— Hari Kondabolu

Once my family was taken, I became fully aware that my community matters less to some people. That we are treated differently…

— Diane Guerrero

I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.

— Luke Evans

My parents both had eighth-grade educations. My mother had five kids by the time she was 23, and my father was a…

— Louis DeJoy

My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.

— Donna Strickland

I was absolutely blessed. And I'm really fortunate that my parents were there for me. And I hope that I can give…

— Jimmy John Liautaud

My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not…

— Eleanor Catton

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.

— Nicola Sturgeon

We had such a strange upbringing with such eccentric parents and so we were often put in situations where finding what was…

— Natasia Demetriou

“I could say it all began with my mother.”

— Shannon Celebi

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in…

— Michael Franti

I have to object to this notion that children form their sexuality and their sexual identity from their parents. The truth is…

— Margaret Hoover

“Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its…

— Lukasz Laniecki

“I thought, Dad. Could I go to Vietnam for you? Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I…

— Tucker Elliot

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are…

— Jeffrey Kluger

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

My parents were very strict Muslims, and they weren't shy about showing it.

— Sam Esmail

My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried…

— Jacob Rothschild

I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or…

— Madison Davenport

You are under great scrutiny when you are adopting, more so than natural parents. There are a lot of interviews, screenings etc.

— Craig Revel Horwood

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

— Jennifer Damiano

Not to get mushy, but I realized after talking to my parents what absolute guts they must have had to let their…

— Lzzy Hale

Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just…

— Patton Oswalt

I don't for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who gave me so much confidence.

— Miriam Margolyes