Quotes About Parents

Le brouillard est ici un présage redouté mais l'éclair épelle la bonté universelle et durant les orages les parents suspendent aux arbres leurs enfants emmaillotés.

"Someday I'm going to marry someone like my mom and I'll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.

Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My parents needed money, so at that time it became my responsibility to pay the bills.

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs at any given time.

I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

The lack of affordable, quality child care is a ticking time bomb.

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time—it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. I was born without teeth—and there Richard III had the advantage of me; but I was born without a humpback, likewise, and there I had the advantage of him. My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. But

If you want a couple of weeks in bed (as I did, bi-annually), and if you have indolent and credulous parents, it's amazing what a few packs of French cigarettes will do.

Since crime often grows out of a sense of futility and despair, Negro parents must be urged to give their children the love, attention, and sense of belonging that a segregated society deprives them of.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

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