Parents Quotes · Page 133

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

— Billy Graham

“As a child you don’t question your parents’ choices. You accept them. They”

— Bruce Springsteen

I have always loved doing accents. I have lived with my parents in a number of countries, including Italy and Jamaica.

— Sarita Choudhury

Parents: you do realize one day you will have to pay for all your own things me: yes but today is not…

— Rajat Dogra

Chinese parents always think you can do better. But it comes from wanting you to succeed.

— Alvin Leung

I've already put my parents through the wringer with a number of my jobs!

— Ari Graynor

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.

— Bo Sanchez

My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.

— Eileen Atkins

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with…

— Katy Perry

My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but…

— Berenice Bejo

In this world of her parents' home, the soul-bride has been deluded by doubt. Attached to duality, she later comes to regret…

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

My forefathers were from Punjab and so were my parents before they shifted to Delhi. And let me make this very clear…

— Nagma

[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And…

— Charlie Brooker

Just because a child does the littlest thing wrong you want to shout after them. Lord, its just one miner thing but…

— Ritu Ghatourey

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening…

— Josephine de La Baume

“I have heard that, with some persons, temperance – that is, moderation – is almost impossible; and if abstinence be an evil…

— Anne Brontë

“So our job as parents is not to make a particular kind of child. Instead, our job is to provide a protected…

— Alison Gopnik

As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not…

— Polly Berrien Berends

Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents…

— Kenneth Keniston

“Helicopter parents. Before I started at Pirriwee Public, I thought it was an exaggeration, this thing about parents being overly involved with…

— Liane Moriarty

“We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the…

— Luke Timothy Johnson

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'…

— David Mitchell

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked…

— David Oyelowo

Back in the early '40s, they used to call Down syndrome infants and babies 'mongoloids.' It's very hard for parents.

— Chris Burke

If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say,…

— Juan Pablo Galavis

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

— Laura Schlessinger

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

— Plato

When I changed my degree to acting, I almost gave my parents heart attacks.

— Jayma Mays

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can

— Scott Baio

My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

— Sam Claflin

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

My parents are artists and have always instilled great pride in understanding of various backgrounds.

— Paloma Elsesser

I don't know how our parents have dealt with us after all these years. We were pretty angsty teens.

— Alana Haim

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

— Jonny Lang

I look back and thank God for my parents who were supportive.

— Neelam Kothari

“I find it very hypocritical that my parents have taken such a negative stance toward television. ”

— Penn Brooks

I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted.

— Meghan Trainor

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

— Frances Bean Cobain

“My parents are soul mates. Even when everything else in the world is wrong, I can count on them.”

— Amy Sparling