Parents Quotes

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

It is time for us to focus on the issues that bring us together as a nation. Supporting parents' capacity to raise their children with the love and resources they need is simply the right thing to do.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.

I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.