Parents Quotes
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My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.
Bonnie Hammer
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If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn’t exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
Warren Farrell
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I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.
Margaret Thatcher
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I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.
Lemon Andersen
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Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...
J. G. Ballard
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When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.
Anne M. Mulcahy
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My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.
Lauren Oliver
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The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.
Jesse Kellerman
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I was mortified by my parents - what they did, who they were, everything. I hated who I was. I hated everything, and I would live in a fantasy world and try to be different. But that's not a lot different, I think, than a lot of kids.
Amy Hill
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Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?
Sara Willis
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My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.
Tyler Florence
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I'm still the community college kid with immigrant parents.
Jimmy Gomez
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Parents fear for their children. Absolutely, I think it's a deep and troubling theme to explore.
James Watkins
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I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.
Amity Gaige
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My mom loved road trips, and sometimes we'd drive down to North Carolina. Though my parents were separated, she wanted me to stay connected with my dad.
Brian Tyree Henry
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It's just weird that for some people, art is a luxury. My parents had no artistic outlet. Some people pass down music to their kids, but I couldn't tell you what my mom's or dad's favorite song is. So when I started going out into the world, I was drawn to people who knew about movies, art, even fashion.
Channing Tatum
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Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North Carolina than obtained in Norfolk, Virginia, plus the fact she just didn't like the lowland-lying climate there.
Ella Baker
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I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.
Kit Harington
