Grow Quote by Katy Perry

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

— Margaret Qualley

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what being a…

— Chris Sullivan

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their…

— Harold S. Kushner

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

— Tana French

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

— Morley Safer

Parents today are self-absorbed. They don't care what anyone thinks or even what their children think. There is less focus on discipline, integrity, boundaries,…

— GloZell

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

— Jodi Picoult

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

— Allison Winn Scotch

As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that…

— Alex Kendrick

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to…

— Wayne Gretzky

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

— Anna Quindlen