Parents Quotes · Page 53

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

— Alec Baldwin

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

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

— Brian Austin Green

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

— Chanda Kochhar

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

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

It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no…

— Alex Bregman

My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize,…

— Cornelia Parker

My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want…

— Laura Dekker

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad…

— Robert Webb

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot…

— Michelle Monaghan

So often I meet parents who are just exhausted. I want to look at how I can then create space for that…

— Jo Frost

The best part is when parents come up to me with their kids, and they say, 'My daughter started gymnastics because of…

— Laurie Hernandez

“Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with…

— Annette Bening

I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling…

— Charles M. Blow

“All this waiting. Waiting for the rain to stop. Waiting in traffic. Waiting for the bill. Waiting at the airport for an…

— Kamand Kojouri

“Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do-- have…

— Virginia M. Axline

I want to ask parents, when daughters turn 11 or 14, they keep a tab on their movements. Have these parents ever…

— Narendra Modi

I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people…

— Zach Anner

I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They)…

— Jeremih

“God, you don't just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother." No way. You check with their personal secretaries…

— Mike Shepherd

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

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

— Nikhil Saluja

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

— Gemma Atkinson

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

— Shelley Duvall

“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

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

— Soni Razdan

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

— Hilaria Baldwin

I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very…

— Mark McGwire

“whatever her own parents did or didn’t do was nothing short of heroic and”

— Donia Bijan

“Fortunately, most children learn to walk before they can be told how to by their parents.”

— Zach Kleiman

One who does not obey the parents word will be taught by the world.

— Vikrant Parsai

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in…

— Daniela Ruah

“getting-involved-with-parents-of-students thing." "That is weird. If I had a kid, I wouldn't want his”

— R.T. Wolfe