Parents Quotes
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My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year that meant so much to them. They were able to see their loved ones, and it was great to hear their son's voice on the radio while they visited.
Johnny Mathis
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Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
Phil McGraw
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My parents separated soon after I was born, so I left Helsinki when I was a year old. My mother took me to Paris and then other places throughout Western Europe.
George Gaynes
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I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried.
Dinaw Mengestu
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The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Louise Hart
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I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.
James Caan
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We are created in the image of our heavenly parents; we are God's spirit children. Therefore, we have a vast capacity for love - it is part of our spiritual heritage.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Arizona has three of the top 10 public high schools in the nation. We know how to educate a child. We just need to do it more often in more locations, and where we're having issues are in low-income areas where - where kids don't have a parent that cares or two parents that care, and, of course, also in our tribal nations.
Doug Ducey
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I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.
Anne-Marie Duff
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Parents tend to value their lives more highly than people without kids, but they're different in lots of ways: They're richer. They're better educated. They're healthier.
Angus Deaton
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When I was 6 years old, I asked my parents for an organ. I don't have any idea why I wanted an organ.
Brian Stokes Mitchell
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There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
Joanne Rowling
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Growing up, my parents treated my brother and me with absolute equality.
Anushka Sharma
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We need to be vigilant to protect our children, ... It is imperative that parents, industry, prosecutors and lawmakers all work together to identify and address possible threats, and that we teach our children to protect themselves from those who would do them harm.
Eliot Spitzer
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My parents are still married. They don't weigh 350 pounds; they go to the gym all the time.
Jami Attenberg
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By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce.
Frank Abagnale
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A study by the Parents Television Council, a media watchdog group, found scenes of graphic violence and gore are increasing in TV dramas - and particularly on NBC.
Elizabeth Flock
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People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.
Eliot Sumner
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One late afternoon, Dante came over to my house and introduced himself to my parents. Who did stuff like that?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.
Claire Denis
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I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.
Franka Potente
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It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.
Courtney Love
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I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.
Keerthy Suresh
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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
Maya Lin