Parents Quotes

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

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.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I think we have a responsibility to educate parents how to produce healthy meals for their families.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

From my parents, I learned a very strong work ethic, and all of my brothers and sisters all worked from the earliest days of life right through to the present time.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.