Parents Quotes · Page 108

Even though my parents were famous actors, I honestly felt most of the time that I didn't understand what was going on.

— Sean Astin

My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.

— Christine Elise

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

— Georges St-Pierre

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

— Richard Grenell

The behavior of some children suggests that their parents embarked on the sea of matrimony without a paddle.

— Anonymous

When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

— Dan Ariely

Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks.

— Chanda Kochhar

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

— Brian Austin Green

I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't think that this was some…

— Chang-Rae Lee

Cara is not my real name, and I'm not going to tell you what it is. Only because I do live in…

— Irene Cara

It should be your parents and others in the community that you look up to. For me it was my grandmother, a…

— Linford Christie

My parents didn't have the opportunities they would have liked, but they didn't complain about that because they thought they were part…

— Keir Starmer

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

— Janine di Giovanni

My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced…

— Romesh Ranganathan

Everything that we were passionate about, my parents supported it. But they always made it really clear that those kinds of things,…

— Gwen Stefani

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children…

— John Updike

For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks…

— David Nicholls

“What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. Those two strangers…

— Jonathan Dunne

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

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and…

— James Woods

What a messed up generation we have . . . young kids drinking and burning like theres no tomorrow, little girls going…

— Tati Kaniaupio

“My parents are humans too. This has been one of my greatest awakenings in adulthood: my parents being regular people, too. They…

— Natalie Brenner

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be…

— Priscilla Presley

Parents give every moment of their happiness for your comfort and joy. Parents are the to guide you, and show ways to…

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

— Shelley Duvall

Everyone is different, and each has to create his or her own path, irrespective of who their parents are.

— Soni Razdan

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

— Dia Mirza

When we agree to be parents, we have to accept the good and the bad.

— Hilaria Baldwin

I didn't have any specific gym training, my parents weren't athletes and I wasn't born into the fitness industry.

— Gemma Atkinson

Parents shouldn't tell their kids to dream big if they're stupid. Don't give them false hope.

— Nikhil Saluja

My parents preached to be humble and just take what you've been given.

— Justin Jefferson

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

— Anonymous

People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.

— Eliot Sumner

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

— Martina Hingis

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

— Alec Baldwin

Is you Parents an artist? Because They Made you a perfect Master peace.

— NO VOICE

I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

My husband's parents were both English teachers for decades.

— Celeste Ng

That look you give your friend when they say something they weren't supposed to mention in front of your parents...

— Anonymous