Parents Quotes
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Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.
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My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a lot over the years.
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I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.
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Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
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My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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Great families of yesterday we show,And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.
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You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to.
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If you must know, my parents came from pretty hardscrabble backgrounds in the southern Midwest. I certainly didn't grow up poor, but I did spend my 20s and early 30s juggling temp jobs and choking on massive student-loan debt.
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As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That's why so many parents don't teach their kids about money.
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I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
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Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
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When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definitely a culture shock. But it was a really interesting time to be there. I didn't entirely realize how different it is from the States. I just accepted it because I was there and my parents needed to be there.
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I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.
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I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.
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I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.
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When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.
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I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
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I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.
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Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.
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My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former Soviet republics, became independent states. Drawing on her experience as a lawyer in Canada, she served as executive officer of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation, an NGO she helped to found.
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My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67.
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With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.
