Parents Quotes
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Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.
Francis Bacon -
My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
Atom Egoyan
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Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.
Anne Cassidy -
I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.
Jose Gonzalez -
When my parents were paying for my sport, it wasn't just me out on the ice. Pretty much every dollar my mom made teaching went into my skating.
Ashley Wagner -
My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.
Beth Moore -
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.
Bill Vaughan -
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.
L. Tom Perry
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For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
Chris Pine -
My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.
Meghan Markle -
Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'
Amy Adams -
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.
Jack Roy -
I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
Lena Dunham -
I remember the first time I ever showed my parents a song that I had written. The content may have been a little darker than they were used to, or really introspective in a way that may have been uncomfortable. I thought they'd retaliate with some kind of judgment or concern about whether I was feeling all right, but they were proud of it.
Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
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My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.
Mike Shinoda Linkin Park -
I get along great with my family. My parents are really proud of me and my brother, who's a chef here in New York. I don't see my parents often, but they're very supportive, especially as I get older.
Alison Mosshart -
I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.
bell hooks -
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
Lee Haney -
My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.
Kiefer Sutherland -
My parents are so supportive of whatever we want to do and completely nurtured that, and they're so proud of that as well. My sister's a doctor, and I have an older brother as well. He went into the music industry; he's very musically talented.
Hannah John-Kamen
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The way I grew up, I had hippie parents, and we would run around the garden with no shoes on, very close to nature. So I never wore little princess dresses. I still have this feeling whenever I wear a very formal dress; I always have this slight fear that people will point their fingers at me and laugh: 'Vicky is trying to look like a lady.'
Vicky Krieps -
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
Marian Wright Edelman -
'I wish my parents took good care of their grow-op.'
Douglas Coupland -
When I heard the Pogues, I connected with the songs immediately, but it was also the first time I didn't reject out of hand the kind of music that my parents had always tried to push on to us when we were growing up.
Martin McDonagh