Parents Quotes
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I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.
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I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.
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I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.
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When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.
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My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.
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My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
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You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
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I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
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My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say the hard turn for me was when I left school after the eighth grade to play tennis full time and study some with a travelling tutor.
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There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.
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My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.
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Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life.
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Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education.
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My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.
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Immigrant parents dream that their children will find a place in their new home, and they willingly suffer hardships in service to that dream. That was certainly true of my parents.
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It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.
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All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.
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My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
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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.'
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I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.
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When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.
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My parents made every effort to encourage me to pursue anything in life that I enjoyed or found appealing so that I would be able to better understand myself and my passions as I grew up.
