Parents Quotes

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not listen to other people. That was hard for me.

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living in their community.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.