Parents Quotes · Page 86

I always told my parents, 'Just give me till I'm 27 to do comedy, to make it'.

— Nikki Glaser

Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents.

— Pepper Schwartz

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me.

— Ashley Tisdale

Since the age of 12, I was on my own. Everything I do, I get my parents' support.

— Vlade Divac

I attended sports school in Bulgaria just like my parents. I attended class twice a day and trained twice a day.

— Rusev

Just because your parents are illiterate or not educated doesn't mean they don't know a thing or two about life.

— Natasha Nsemiwe

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents

— Rod Blagojevich

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

— Gore Verbinski

There was a time my parents never listened to me. They wouldn't have forced me into marriage had they heard me out.…

— Qandeel Baloch

My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or…

— August Wilson

I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was…

— Laura Wade

Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just…

— Patton Oswalt

Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job…

— James Blunt

When I was a boy, my parents would buy me a new toy and I would destroy it. Oh man, I would…

— Andy Ruiz Jr

My father was an air conditioning engineer and we lived in a three-bedroom terraced house in Langley before moving to a four-bedroom…

— Peter Jones

I think your musical tastes are largely shaped at a young age by your parents, as they're in charge of what's on…

— Alice Levine

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job…

— Michael Morpurgo

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done…

— Robert Sternberg

When I was a little kid, no matter what my parents told me, I would always argue - even if I agreed…

— Tom Noonan

My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who…

— Lana Del Rey

Let them get at the books themselves, and do not let them be flooded with diluted talk from the lips of their…

— Charlotte Mason

My parents moved to Los Angeles when I was really young, but I spent every summer with my grandparents, and I'd stay…

— Forest Whitaker

Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's…

— Dorothy H Cohen

“We tend to know a lot about our parents’ lives, but our grandparents? The big events of their lives happened long before…

— Lauren K. Denton

“Parents are just uncelebrated rock stars - we stay up late, take drugs and treat our bodies like crap. Yay!”

— Amber Dusick

I was raised by vegan parents, and we ate out of my backyard garden for my whole life.

— Madelaine Petsch

“Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.”

— Martin Amis

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

— Chelsea Clinton

When I get off the phone with my parents, usually I'm in a good spot.

— Marcus Mariota

Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

— Lisa Ling

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

— Emo Philips

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

— Jennifer Grant

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in…

— Mike Myers

I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.

— Yvonne Orji

If you're a black kid from the streets and somebody is rapping about parents not understanding, you'd laugh at that.

— MC Ren

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.

— Leona Lewis

My parents have left a legacy in our family of service to others.

— Neil Bush

My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what…

— Benjamin Clementine

Practice makes perfect. How many times have parents uttered those words to encourage their children ¦?

— Vikrant Parsai

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

— Lucy Deakins