Parents Quotes
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To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.
Amy Chua
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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.
Boyd K. Packer
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My parents always told me I'm beautiful the way that I am, and I never thought to myself that I needed to be skinny because there's a magazine out there that said, Oh, size two, or, Oh, this girl's beautiful because she's skinny.
Hayley Hasselhoff
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Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.
Riaad Moosa
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I know parents are often concerned: 'Oh, no, I wouldn't take my kids into the studio because it would destroy all their illusions.' It's a fairly adult concept.
Jim Henson
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I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.
Melvyn Bragg
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Like, did you know that LGBT kids are 8.4 times more likely than straight kids to attempt suicide? And 50 percent of LGBT kids are rejected by their parents? That between 20 and 40 percent of homeless teens say they’re gay, lesbian, or transgender, and that up to 50 percent of the guy teens have sold their bodies to support themselves?
Bill Konigsberg
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How I was raised was, there were no rules - nothing like that. If I wanted to take a drug because I was in school and everybody was doing it, I could go to my parents and say, "I really want to try this." And they'd say, "If you do this, O.K., but this is what can happen to you..." They'd say, "Don't get it in the streets, because it could be really bad and make you freak out. Don't take it in a crowded place, because you'll panic."
Winona Ryder
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When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.
Hillary Clinton
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I dispute the idea that we turn into our parents. These children who have come into my life are unique beings. I don't think I am teaching my children anything, frankly. I think they are teaching me.
Andrew Lincoln
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My parents wanted me to go to law school.
Sasha Alexander
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All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.
Sarah Polley
