Parents Quotes

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

And there was huge numbers of UFOs around my parents home in Kingston.

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to experience it at school I'd never have experienced it. But I loved English, and I was very lucky in that I had inspirational English teachers, Miss Scriven and Mr. Walker, and they liked us to learn poems by heart, which I found I loved doing.

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

I think my parents were high when they named me.

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

When my parents separated, I was very grateful.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.