Parents Quotes
You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me.
Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.
We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.
As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.
It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'
My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.
The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my parents if I could have an agent for Christmas.
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.
But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.
Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.
As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.
This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.
My parents got married late and they had kids late, so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.
I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.
A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again that's not the case in my family.
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.
We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless —unless they've got to.
My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.
I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.
It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.
The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children.
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
