Parents Quotes · Page 83

One of the first things one notices in a backward country is that children are still obeying their parents.

— Anonymous

I hate when my parents rush me to get ready and then when I am, they're not.

— Anonymous

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

— Anthony Hopkins

Imagine having Ahab for a father, and Jezebel for a mother.Only God can help your future.

— Wordfaith3

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.

— David Keith

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

— Michael Jordan

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

— Harold Ramis

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

— Amy Winehouse

“Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think it helped all of us that we had creative parents. They understood what it was like when a kid wanted…

— Michael Penn

Well, Dilip saab was a family friend; he knew my parents. So we were always invited when there was a function at…

— Saira Banu

I think when you are an only child, parents are more protective and fearful because they've only got one of you. I…

— Rosamund Pike

My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was…

— Garrett Atkins

My mom was the enforcer - you have parents who are like that. One is the enforcer and the other one just…

— Cedella Marley

The reason why the Liberals and the NDP don't want parents to know about the universal child care benefit is because those…

— Pierre Poilievre

“Parents drinking is the reason you came into the world, and if we didn't keep doing it then, by God, it would…

— Caitlin Moran

I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter…

— Phyllis Smith

I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be…

— Michelle Alexander

“We’re here to execute a murderer,” Zil said, pointing at Hunter. “We are bringing justice in the name of all normals.” “There’s…

— Michael Grant

“All parents set out with expectations, hopes and dreams for their child. When a child is diagnosed with a health problem, these…

— Sharon Dempsey

children need truly evolved people - not other, larger children - as parents. Therefore, don't have a child until you've forged your…

— Phyllis Chesler

My parents are very supportive of my work. It's my father who encourages me to keep going and my mother she's very…

— David Linley

“Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not…

— Kahlil Gibran

There is no guilty child without at least a fraction of fault belonging to his parents, to his teachers.

— Mariana Fulger

My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

— James Blunt

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly.

— Maurice Sendak

Good kids want to stay where their parents can see them play.

— Mack Brown

If at first you do succeed - it's probably your parents' business'.

— Anonymous

“Parents, don’t invest in your child's teaching; invest in your child's learning.”

— Steve Ahn

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

— Maurice Sendak

My parents both played tennis in South Africa. I learned from them.

— Ilana Kloss

For about four years, all I did was watch television. I suppose my parents should have stopped me.

— Stephen Hough

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

— Robert Breault

I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.

— Hailey Baldwin

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

— Alain de Botton

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

— Matt Berninger

Twitter is currently the only social network your parents haven't ruined.

— Anonymous

“Your parents could always hurt you, no matter how old you were.”

— Cassandra Clare

In that portion of time where my parents were together, I got to see great love, great loyalty, and teamwork.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle