Parents Quotes · Page 91

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

My parents met when they were 16 and bonded over the antiwar movement.

— Corey Stoll

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

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

— Kelly Osbourne

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

— David Copperfield

“So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a…

— Martin R. Lemieux

I was never a very adventurous eater growing up, despite the fact that my mother is a nutritionist and my parents have…

— J. J. Redick

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after…

— Christian Boltanski

As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents…

— Tom Sturridge

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around…

— Henry Rollins

The crazy thing is the older I get the more I see what they told me is true. If we would listen…

— Anonymous

I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had…

— Jacques Torres

“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.”

— John Broadbent

“Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence—like a gift—by praising their brains and talent. It doesn’t work, and in fact has…

— Carol S. Dweck

Whenever my parents got married, my dad had a mullet. Me and my dad are very similar-type people with the way we…

— Morgan Wallen

Toffee Crisp was my downfall. I once ate five at a sitting. Do you really need that third helping, Harry? My parents…

— Harry Melling

I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in…

— Gary Numan

I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing…

— Colleen Atwood

I don't like the way most people think. It's imprecise. I find that when parents ask me questions, they ask very imprecise…

— Temple Grandin

My parents, last time we went to Ikea, got into a huge fight, almost got divorced. My dad accidentally put his fist…

— Jedediah Bila

There are some forty thousand children in California, according to the red brief, that live with same-sex parents, and they want their…

— Anthony Kennedy

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

“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

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

— Carole King

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

— Alden Ehrenreich

'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

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

— Abby Huntsman

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

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

— Robert Cheeke

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

Honestly speaking, after seeing my parents' marriage, I have lost all faith in marriage.

— Rakhi Sawant

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

— Doris Lessing

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

— Sylvia Earle