Quotes About Parents

I had good parents. Two older brothers, bit of a handful between us, all got ginger hair, a bit fiery. I remember a very happy childhood.

I had really loving parents and a happy childhood.

There are a lot of hard-working parents out there for whom it is hard to support their families during Thanksgiving.

I respect my parents a lot, so I try my hardest to be the best son I can.

I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.

I was raised by some very grounded, hardworking, Middle America parents.

I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, and the one that I remember the most - it's not necessarily my favorite - was when they dressed me as Castro when I was eight years old. I was in fatigues, camouflage hat, beard and cigar. I don't think I did that well with candy that year.

My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!

I built up so much hatred for my parents, like so much anger for the life they had given me.

When I started acting, my parents gave me three rules: I had to stay good in school, stay the kid they always knew I was, and I had to have fun. If I wasn't doing those three things, then I couldn't do acting anymore.

Many experts are concerned that the parents who need safe havens the most are the least likely to use them.

Half the bloody world is going through a divorce; more than that are having children. All of us have parents who are dying or have died. It's just the life cycle.

I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.

No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.

My parents' record collection was the music I was hearing as long as I can remember, and I would play Otis Redding over and over again.

I look up to my parents because they were both following their dreams. But I also know the heartache and I saw how hard it is and that you really, really gotta love what you do.

We are eternal beings - spirit children of heavenly parents.

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.

Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

My ten-year-old daughter loves gifts. She loves to give them and she loves to get them. She loves to give them when she's hurt her parents' feelings, and she loves to get them when her parents have hurt hers.

I really wanted a tennis dress. My parents told me that if I played, they would buy me one. I was like, 'Hey, I'll try it.'

I kind of - I like my life; I feel I have lots of opportunities. And my parents actually having had such high expectations for me - I would say it's the greatest gift that anyone has ever given me. I complained a lot when I was little, but that's how I feel now. And that's why I tried to do the same with my two daughters.