Parents Quotes
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What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.
Derek Jeter
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That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.
Kenny Troutt
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I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.
Andrew Solomon
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Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.
Lisa See
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Our parents have always encouraged us to be independent and dream big.
Jenna Bush
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I remember my parents quarrelling. They would talk as if they were against each other's ideas about Trotsky, but it was just a couple arguing.
Maria de Medeiros
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I've always wanted to be in comedy... growing up with Asian parents and not seeing yourself represented in media - it was always just a daydream.
Anna Akana
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Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
Joel Salatin
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I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was a little bit more out there, and was always into observing the world from a slightly more spiritual, as opposed to scientific, perspective.
Alex Clare
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Karaoke was my family's happy secret. In those early years in America, like many immigrants, my parents struggled with poverty and loneliness, but they also built provisional families, and inside our bubble there was joy, understanding, an intimate language I could never translate - and above all there was song.
Jenny Zhang
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I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that 'my parents wont be there.'
Drew Barrymore
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My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.
Kristin Hersh
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Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.
Maurice Sendak
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Technologically we can deliver the ability of parents to be able to log into a school intranet, be able to see what homework has been set or look at lesson planning, whether the child is attending, see what the timetable is like, all of that is possible and there are some schools that are doing it already.
Jim Knight
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My parents are strict, but the most important thing they have taught me is to be humble and kind and to always treat others as I would like to be treated myself.
Brooklyn Beckham
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My parents didn't really know one another.
Christopher Durang
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It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.
M. Russell Ballard
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My parents were immigrants.
Mario Cuomo
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Most kids start playing hockey at the age of five, I was an earlier bloomer. My parents laced up my first pair of skates and put me on the ice at the young age of 2 ½, basically right after I mastered walking.
P. K. Subban
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Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
Chaz Bono
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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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I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.
Lindsay Davenport
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I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.
Leighton Meester
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Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.
Ian Mckellen