Parents Quotes

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

My parents didn't play golf.

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do Saturday Night Live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew I wanted the same job.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

Since the conception of our country, America has held that parents, not schools, teachers, and certainly not courts, hold the primary responsibility of educating their children.