Parents Quotes · Page 46

My parents supported me a lot, they always asked me to keep my options open.

— Mayank Agarwal

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

— Paul Walker

Getting into comedy was difficult for my parents to comprehend. I think now they are really proud I stuck to it.

— Yvonne Orji

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

— John Hurt

I make sure to talk to my parents and brother once a week. I have to keep up my Danish. Phoning is…

— Morten Andersen

I was raised in a very, very loving household. I had quite unusual parents, and my father has always been my hero.

— Roxie Roker

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— Hiten Tejwani

When we were kids, we didn't have the luxury to take decisions of our life as the right was reserved for our…

— Binnu Dhillon

I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and…

— Jimmy O. Yang

“Her parents had gone from a couple who would be different, who would be better than anyone, who were determined to be…

— Lorrie Moore

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

We know when there is economic opportunity that's great for families and it's great for whether one parent wants to work, or…

— Doug Burgum

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and…

— Marisa Miller

I can easily tap into the feeling of being a mother and the feeling of, you always want what's best for your…

— Andrea Navedo

My parents fled from a Cuban dictatorship in search of freedom. Growing up, I saw my parents struggle... I am here today…

— Alexander Acosta

“The majority of my generation decides to move back in with their parents after college. Unemployment, for them, is twice the national…

— Ryan Holiday

I'm really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you…

— Paul Auster

Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken…

— J. C. Ryle

By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class…

— Abhishek Bachchan

You know how kids have a meltdown? They're overtired or overstimulated? Every once in a while, Wayne, as Mickey, would say, 'Aw,…

— Russi Taylor

I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive…

— David Wenham

Keeping your ex close took three people who were willing to be incredibly generous, grown-up and mature. I give enormous credit to…

— Kate Beckinsale

“There must be other leaps in life - as momentous as the "mirror stage" - that Lacan didn't mention. Some are universal;…

— Amit Chaudhuri

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

— Rick Famuyiwa

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

— Frank Pittman

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

— Amy Schumer

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

— Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

Before I die, I just want to make my parents happy and proud of me..

— Ritu

My parents keep telling me go and achieve my goal and make them proud everyday.

— Nikki Tamboli

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

— Maurice Sendak

The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.

— Elaine M Ward

My parents came over from Barbados in the late 1950s and early '60s.

— David Harewood

“Parents just concentrate on the thing that drives them nuts and all the other good stuff you do goes out the window.”

— Joan Bauer

People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.

— Leandra Medine

“Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

— Penn Jillette

My mom likes playing this game called 'yell from four rooms away and get upset when I cant hear her'.

— Anonymous

My parents think that my friends are bad influence. But honestly, sometimes I am the MASTERMIND :D

— Anonymous

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

— Diane Lane