Parents Quotes · Page 79

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

As a young child, my family holidays were always in Rock, Cornwall, with my parents, older brother Kim and sister Nicola.

— Toyah Willcox

I don't mind an arranged marriage. The girl my parents choose could be the girl of my dreams.

— Vivek Oberoi

Kids grasp what you teach them, from crawling to walking, for everything they look up to their parents.

— Ammy Virk

My parents love what I'm doing. Like, at first, they were so skeptical, dude. Like, I would be ditching school and, like,…

— Cuco

For me, one of the most flattering things in the world is for parents to write to me saying their children want…

— George Clarke

As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words.

— Rachel Simmons

Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.

— Jenna Bush

I would hide behind my parents' legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a…

— Ben Fogle

My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of…

— Becky G

Both of my parents always worked.

— Paula Kelly

I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I…

— Issa Rae

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it…

— Emeril Lagasse

When I was growing up, my parents were too cheap to buy a snowblower, so my crippled butt was out clearing the…

— Josh Blue

I would say my parents were really supportive after a point. I had to prove to them that I am not just…

— Karthik Subbaraj

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

— Ziggy Marley

I felt very humble when my parents took me to meet Stephen Hawking.

— Brooklyn Beckham

I think my parents felt us being a minority a little bit more than I did, and they tried to shelter me…

— Nathan Chen

My parents got divorced when I was really young and I was a very hyperactive kid, so both parents independently would play…

— Caroline Polachek

In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the…

— Geoffrey Canada

Both my parents are actors, and I saw them struggle with work, waiting for phone calls.

— Charlotte Le Bon

When it comes to children and parents, sometimes it comes down to an acknowledgement of time. Children grow, it is true...but parents…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

I was born in India, and - I was born in Chennai - South Indian. And my parents moved to the U.S.…

— Vidya Vox

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I…

— Marlee Matlin

I came from a home full of the sounds of my parents performing poems or playing recordings of Robert Graves, WB Yeats…

— Michael Rosen

My parents are relieved as much as anything that I'm getting some work.

— Sam Riley

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically -…

— Robin Marantz Henig

My parents taught us respect for other people, and for other people's things.

— Martin Kemp

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

— Yance Ford

It wasn't until I got 'SNL' that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have…

— Jorma Taccone

Parents all over the country are using their right to keep and bear arms to protect their kids.

— Wayne LaPierre

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with…

— Bernard Hill

My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.

— Richard Rogers

When I ask my parents, it's incredibly obvious I was going to have a creative career at an early age. I've been…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I think about some of those parents and friends of mine who have to turn their kitchen tables into home offices and…

— Margaret Brennan

“They (parents) want life to unfold according to what they believe. Most people want that. The last thing they want and need,…

— Lukasz Laniecki

If the country is not allowing to punish the children by the parents for correction.Majority will become devils.

— Sumesh Nair

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my…

— Meaghan Rath

I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't even a thing. It's the only thing…

— Dakota Johnson