Parents Quotes
My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.
David Schwimmer
Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
Philip Yancey
Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
Bernice Weissbourd
When I was little, my parents would have these gatherings, and it was a common thing for me and my cousins to have to put on, like, shows.
Kelela Mizanekristos
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.
Kevin Macdonald
I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.
Caroline B. Cooney
My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.
Scott Vincent James Baio
My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
Kiefer Sutherland
In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.
Joni Ernst
My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.
Amber Riley
I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.
Bruce Forsyth
When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.
Marianne Williamson
