Parents Quotes
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My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.
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My parents didn't play golf.
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Cursed be he above all othersWho's enslaved by love of money.Money takes the place of brothers,Money takes the place of parents.Money brings us war and slaughter.
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'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.
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Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.
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An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
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When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
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My parents always wanted me to go to college.
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People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. This 'tis possible will be thought, by kind parents, a very unnatural thing towards their children; and by most, unreasonable...
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I lost my parents when I was fairly young.
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As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids.
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I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.
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My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.
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My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.
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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.
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In my own life, I find myself doing some task - driving or playing golf - and having a conversation with my mother or father, who are both deceased. I don't know if that means I'm mentally ill, but I suspect lots of people do it. And when I hold that conversation, different images of my parents appear to me.
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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
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It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
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We are the people are parents warned us against.
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The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
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During a visit to California, when a friend of my grandmother's told my parents that I must be deaf because I was not responding to sounds, my father was absolutely convinced that I was simply being stubborn.
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There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.
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I was lucky that my parents listened to really good music. My dad loved Kris Kristofferson.
