Parents Quotes
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My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.
Gwen Stefani No Doubt
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Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
Oprah Winfrey
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My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
Joan Collins
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I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what I wanted to do. I didn't have, you know, a trust fund or parents that could help out.
Jamie Hince
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I started taking piano lessons when I was about 5, and there was always a lot of music in my family: my parents both play instruments, my grandparents were classical violinists, and my grandfather was actually a music professor and a conductor.
Adam Schlesinger
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But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.
Daniel Greenberg
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Imagine living in a state where businesses can legally refuse to serve people based on their sexual orientation. Where parents can force their children to undergo conversion therapy to 'cure' them of their 'homosexual tendencies.'
Lynn Schusterman
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I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.
Tammin Sursok
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I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers. I sort of became the third musketeer.
Emily Ratajkowski
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I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
Jakob Dylan
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It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
Kage Baker
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My parents taught us it's important to give back.
Jenna Bush
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We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.
John Whiting
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We all know what it's like to want to have that support from our family members and the people that we love, especially our parents.
Ashleigh Murray
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When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.
Marion Cotillard
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My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could buy Fernandez, my first grand prix horse.
Charlotte Dujardin
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Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
Rita Mae Brown
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My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.
Jack Roy
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
Darren Aronofsky
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His parents had abdicated responsibility to an illusion.
Alastair Reynolds
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My parents are pretty open-minded.
Karen Fukuhara