Parents Quotes
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I don't have a flat anywhere. I'm registered in the U.K. for tax purposes, I suppose, and my mail goes to my parents.
Benjamin Clementine
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Some parents let their kids sleep at other people's houses, where they drink alcohol, watch TV for hours and God knows what else. But if you say you have to get all A's and practice the violin for two hours, then they consider that abusive. That upsets me.
Amy Chua
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I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.
Arabella Weir
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I was extremely close with my parents. Breaking away from that is a double-edged sword: It's something you need to do, but it's hard to cut the apron strings.
Linda Cardellini
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My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
David Beckham
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As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was 'Old enough to fight, old enough to vote.' The new motto is: 'Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote.'
Ann Coulter
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When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it on his head a few times, he'll learn. You wanna put a penny in the light socket? Try that out. OHH! Hurt like hell, didn't it? Don't do that no more.'
Jeff Foxworthy
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God, it sucks to disappoint your parents, even at forty-two years old.
Lauren Myracle
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My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.
Anna Chancellor
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The man who buries his house in the sand and digs it up again, each evening, learns to put it together quickly and just as quickly to take it apart. My parents sleep like children in the dark. I am too far to hear them breathe.
Agha Shahid Ali
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Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
Bill Vaughan
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I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.
Ahmet Zappa
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My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.
Jessica Biel
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Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.
L. Tom Perry
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Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.
Miguel
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What happened was, my parents after Circus Boy decided to take me out of show business for two years to go back to normal school. It was the smartest thing they ever did.
Micky Dolenz
The Monkees
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My parents are super cheap.
Chance The Rapper
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My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.
Stephen Pagliuca
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Parents no longer believe that a one-size-fits-all model of learning meets the needs of every child. And they know other options exist, whether magnet, virtual, charter, home, faith-based, or any other combination.
Betsy DeVos
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No boy owes his parents. Parents owe their children everything, always and unconditionally, and that’s just the way it goes.
Craig Davidson
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Both my parents are Catholic and staunch believers. I'm not a Catholic now, but I still carry part of it with me.
Andy Serkis
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Once I got to college, it seemed that the Hamptons were a little bit too posh for me and didn't represent the kind of values I was embracing in my late teens. So, I didn't go out there, except to visit my parents, for a long time. And then, after 9/11, I discovered it was a nice, mellow place to hang out.
Colson Whitehead
