Parents Quotes · Page 125

I want to ensure we have more nurseries in schools, and that they open in time for parents to get to work.

— Sam Gyimah

“I imagine my parents would very much relish having an angel for a son. Who, after all, would not?”

— Sonya Hartnett

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

— Bo Sanchez

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

— Diana Lopez

My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating…

— Patrick Chan

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

— Camila Morrone

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

— Peter Breggin

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

The day I turned 16, I moved into my own flat. My parents had just broken up, and I didn't want to…

— Roisin Murphy

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to…

— Abbi Jacobson

I lived wherever my parents felt like making music, which had its ups and downs - I've had to move schools, but…

— Mabel

The truth is, I have made very few public appearances, and when I have, my parents have been very careful to allow…

— Maya Hawke

My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe…

— Anne Donovan

Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you…

— Louis C. K

“you’re not endangering my wife and son, you’re not bringing trouble down on us, if you’re going the same way as your…

— J.K. Rowling

“(My parents) had always instilled in me that it was way cooler to be an individual and to be unique and that…

— Winona Ryder

I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother's black. I'm black because I grew…

— Soledad O'Brien

You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say,…

— Quincy Jones

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In…

— Alan Bennett

A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we…

— Alice Sebold

My parents allowed me to fall backwards so that I could learn how to sit. They allowed me to toddle so that…

— Ash Sweeney

And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him…

— Bible

I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got…

— Julia Davis

I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to…

— Ernest Istook

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

— Amy Chua

My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.

— Lisa Jewell

I'm a second-generation migrant. My parents came to this country from Pakistan, just like the Windrush generation.

— Sajid Javid

My parents didn't really come from a lot, so to see them make so much of themselves was really inspiring.

— Jessica Pegula

In 'Ozark,' the truism that we are not as likely to do as well as our parents did in the past is…

— Alissa Quart

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

— Louis Johannot

“Of course your parents know how to push your buttons. They're the ones who did the wiring.”

— Delia Fontan Fernandez

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

— Loretta Chase

My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.

— Andrew Solomon

Planning the conversation in your head before asking your parents for something big.

— Anonymous

It would be meaningful if I can get a gold medal in my parents' country.

— Chloe Kim

My parents are not nurturers. They're a bit like me: do a good job and move on.

— Deborah Meaden

I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria.

— Rick Famuyiwa

The values my parents taught me were the best gift I ever got.

— Hiten Tejwani

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

— Henry Louis Gates

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

— Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden