Parents Quotes · Page 64

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

— Doris Lessing

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.

— Sophie Kinsella

There are pockets of liberal, affluent America where parents don't want their kids vaccinated.

— Matt Lauer

On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day…

— Robert Cheeke

I want people to know my come-up, my grind, my authenticity. I don't come from rich parents. I just come from hustle.

— Latto

I was such a strong-willed child, my parents weren't sure how to deal with me.

— Abby Huntsman

My parents were the first in our family to go to grammar school. My grandparents were in service.

— Sarah Waters

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

— Sylvia Earle

The best holiday I went on as a kid was to Disney World. I wore the same Minnie Mouse dress for 5…

— Poppy Delevingne

“Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their…

— Quetzal

I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my…

— Mary Badham

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their…

— Alan Watts

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no…

— Katie Stevens

That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss.…

— Art Alexakis

It triggers something in you as a human being because you forget what your parents did for you. But when you become…

— Mo Farah

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion…

— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

I learned a lot about my parents, who were both teachers. I had known that my parents were very strongly in favor…

— Condoleezza Rice

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then…

— Kaskade

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority…

— Bernie Siegel

No matter how sheltered [my students] are, no matter how their parents try to do right by them, every single one of…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

You do your work, and you do the best you can. That's what my parents taught me, and I think what they…

— Judy Smith

Most of the parents in India, especially in smaller towns, fear for daughters due to the inhuman treatment meted out to them.…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

The Bible is big in my teaching. It's a wonder the ACLU didn't get after me pretty good. I really kept thinking…

— Bobby Bowden

When we were trying to make a go of our music, our parents bought everything they could afford for us. We had…

— Richard Carpenter

My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you…

— Toni Trucks

My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.

— Alden Ehrenreich

My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be.

— Carole King

“My parents...well, they mostly just drink and disappear. That's kinda what they're good at.”

— Moïra Fowley-Doyle

“If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.”

— Dennis Prager

There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.

— Steve Carr

As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.

— Richard Linklater

'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not…

— Viggo Mortensen

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

— Carles Puyol

“Most parents can’t give their children a lavish inheritance, but every parent will leave a personal legacy.”

— Reggie Joiner

“In the second month you are, in the words of surviving parents, “over the hump.”

— William Sears

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

— David Copperfield

Mum comes in and says 'I'm working out,' and she'll just be standing there naked doing a dance.

— Kelly Osbourne

I believe that you need your parents the most. That's the most important thing.

— Neena Gupta

I try to have lunch or dinner with my parents on the weekends.

— Nicole Seah