Parents Quotes
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I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.
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I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.
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I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was born and raised in the U.S. That really gave me an edge. I understand that, from the experts, if you grew up bilingual, your brain kind of gets wired to accept a new language. It was a very serious deal because not only did I have to learn Russian to a high degree in order to function as a necessary member of the crew, but also I knew that the Russians that came over that made an effort and had some success in learning English, those were the folks we trusted.
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When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for each other.
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I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.
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For the parents, it is a way to be young physically and emotionally for awhile and not have to deal with the troubles of the world.
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The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.
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I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.
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My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.
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I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.
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It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no matter what it was.
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Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
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I don't want to just be a teenage star. I want to be known by parents, and I want them to go, 'Oh I love that song; he's really good for his age. My daughter loves him, but I love him, too.'
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?'
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Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
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My parents raised me that way: to appreciate what I have and pass it along to others.
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Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates interact more commonly with graduate students.
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Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don't want to be there anymore.
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My parents and my brother root for me.
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I'm not doing this because I want to be famous and not because I want any power. In this country, the power is always with the people; the people we govern on borrowed time. I want to serve. My parents taught me to give back to the community.
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I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.
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My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
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Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.” Once we have kids, we think everyone ought to be a lot more understanding about what we’re trying to survive during the meeting. And once our kids are grown, we think, “I never let my kids get away with that.” We really all need to chill out.
