Parents Quotes
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In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.
Amy Chua -
I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents.
Robert Frost
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'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in.
David Duchovny -
I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.
Urijah Christopher Faber -
During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.
Jessica Seinfeld -
I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other reason than to hear stories about their parents when they were children.
Al Roker -
Parents – especially step-parents – are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fufill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell -
I didn't play video games because my parents didn't allow it. That was banned from my childhood experience.
Kristin Kreuk
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It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
James Patterson -
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 -
My parents had a difficult divorce.
Christian Camargo -
I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.
Karen Fukuhara -
It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.
Jennifer Grant -
To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.
Luke Pasqualino
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Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one of us has parents and has either said goodbye to those parents or knows that someday they will.
John Grogan -
My parents wanted their daughters to reach their full potential. I joke that they said, 'We left our homeland so you could pursue your dreams - as long as you're a lawyer, a doctor, or an engineer.'
Dina Powell -
My parents taught us it's important to give back.
Jenna Bush -
You clearly saw there was one focus or concentration, ... Hulk (Hogan), even though he was not always straight up with the things he was doing in the ring, he would say take your vitamins, obey your parents. That played very well for the time, but now we have edgier kind of programming, and we continue to push the envelope.
Linda McMahon -
My parents trust me.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler -
My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.
David Russell
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The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using anymore. I found them when I was ten; I didn't know what it was. But I found Lightnin' Hopkins.
Ato Essandoh -
My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just kept challenging me and challenging me.
Abby Wambach -
It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.
Jason Robards -
Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents who make the effort to understand their children's point of view are likely to treat children fairly and in an age-appropriate manner.
David Elkind