Parents Quotes
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Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.
Randy Alcorn
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When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.
David Mitchell
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I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy childhood. My mother was overly sensitive; my father, ascetic. I was neither. I felt as if I were living with complete strangers. I suspect that my parents felt the same way.
Lisa Lutz
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I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not.
Barack Obama
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I trust Colorado families and teachers way more than I trust D.C. central planners who think they know better than parents do.
Darryl Glenn
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I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.
Jeremy London
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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
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I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.
Mark Ronson
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Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.
Jon Lester
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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
Anand Giridharadas
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All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.
Charles C. Mann
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My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
Jennifer Aniston
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When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.
Jack Roy
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I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.
Colleen Atwood
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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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My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody, and he'd go, 'Well, Shirley, our parents cursed us with ethics, and we passed it on to our children.'
John Wesley Shipp
