Parents Quotes
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My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.
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My parents owned a pharmacy in Budapest, which gave us a comfortable living. As I was their only child, they wanted me to become a pharmacist. But my own preference would have been to study philosophy and mathematics.
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Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
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I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'
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I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little. My parents thought I would change my mind. My boyfriends always think I'm going to change my mind, but it never happened. I fall in love with my businesses.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.
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My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but I haven't lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I've kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.
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Today it feels as if rock'n'roll has sort of turned in on its self, kids are 'rockin' to the same groups their parents do/did. We've seen it recently with The Stone Roses reunion shows, quite unique but is it healthy. Wasn't the 60's about rebelling against the tastes of your parents?
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I came to this country when I was 12 years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.
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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.
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There are two phone calls parents don't ever want to get from their children. No. 1 is, 'I'm in prison. Come fetch me.' And No. 2 is, 'I've written a novel... and it's set in your hometown.'
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You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
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My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.
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It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.
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Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
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In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.
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One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.
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My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments.
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My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.
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There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.
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You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.
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I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.
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Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.
