Parents Quotes
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Dad always encouraged my singing, so when 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' was a hit in the States, I flew my parents to New York first-class to see me, put them up at the Waldorf Astoria, then they sailed home on the QE2.
Pauline Matthews
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In my view, a right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the 'unalienable Rights' with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men . . . are endowed by their Creator.'
Antonin Scalia
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When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.
Prince William
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Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.
Emily V. Gordon
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And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got a Barbie, and you got to hang out with friends. And I thought it was just the best thing ever.
Chelan Simmons
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I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an interest in the arts. I took piano lessons and singing lessons, acting lessons. So it was all new to them, but my parents were great.
Max von Essen
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I'm the rogue Canadian in my family – I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
Eleanor Catton
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Young people should ponder over problems that might confront them and be prepared to cope with them in a way that their parents, their leaders, and their Heavenly Father would have them cope, that they might keep themselves clean and pure.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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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
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Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'
Alice Eve
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Young parents in America are holy and not to be messed with. If they say something is correct, we all acquiesce. And is there any man, woman or canine who doesn't leap out of the way when one of those giant, all-terrain Bugaboo strollers comes barreling down the sidewalk?
Amity Shlaes
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I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples' homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?
Zhou Xun
