Parents Quotes · Page 75

Parents and others caring for family members deserve fair treatment on the job.

— Randi Zuckerberg

A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.

— Jennifer Damiano

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

— Drew Barrymore

I'm willing to be different than other parents and go against the mainstream.

— Amy Chua

If my parents are at the meet, I'll try to look and just kind of spot them out in the stands.

— Caeleb Dressel

No matter how old we are, or whether they're dead or alive, we always want our parents to be proud of us.

— Laura S

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

— Judy Sheindlin

Children may not inherit their parents' talent,but they absorb their values.

— Anonymous

My parents married in 1959 and came to Amsterdam on honeymoon. That was a huge thing, event, for them. Now my children…

— Frans Timmermans

My parents are hard nuts. Especially my Dad. He never wanted me to struggle and he always wanted me to fight my…

— Nicolas Hamilton

My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her…

— Vladimir Putin

“Middle-class parents are more verbal generally, their vocabulary is richer and more expressive, and they are more supportive and less controlling in…

— Karl Alexander

Being a teenager is chaotic because you're kind of coming into your own, but you're not an adult; you're fighting with your…

— Troian Bellisario

I always liked performing. I learnt to sing, play the piano and dance. I was good at academics too but I was…

— Catherine Tresa

There's a natural separation that kids have to go through with their parents, but then when you put that on top of…

— Adrianne Lenker

I want my kids to have a life like I did growing up. The greatest gift I was given in life was…

— John Stockton

Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement…

— Amy Chua

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of…

— Regina King

“When her mother combed Harriet's hair, she said that the woods were disgustingly muddy and mosquito-ridden. During her history unit on pioneers,…

— Kimberly Karalius

I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation…

— Nile Rodgers

We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive…

— St. Lucia

When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this…

— April Gornik

Negotiating the adolescent stage is neither quick nor easy. . . . I have often said to parents, "If it isn't illegal,…

— Virginia Satir

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to…

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this…

— Bob Weir

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

— Alan Guth

As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own…

— Meg Cabot

“I'll tell you a secret. A lot of times, parents are not the best at seeing their children clearly.”

— Celeste Ng

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

— Cassandra Clare

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

— Deb Caletti

My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.

— Wunmi Mosaku

My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me.

— Lena Dunham

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

— Clarence Darrow

When parents accused me of polluting young minds, I was hurt.

— Suresh Gopi

My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed.

— Giles Deacon

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

— Paul Prudhomme

My parents were crazy. They just wanted to do everything they could for their kids.

— Clint Dempsey

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

— Eric Lindros

I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.

— Reinhold Messner