Parents Quotes

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.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.

As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our parents, our teachers, our intimates.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

My parents both worked full time. I remember a lot of simple meals. Everything I know about cooking is self-schooled.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.