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Quotes About Parents

Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
~ Macaulay Culkin
Wow, my parents are frickin' cool.
~ Maryse Mizanin
All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
~ Mitt Romney
I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor.
~ Allison Williams
There are some parents who always have their daughter's hair whipped. Mine wasn't always like that, but I appreciate that both my parents were into me having natural hair, so they did find Anota Scott, who I was going to for my cornrows and wrapping last year and a couple years before that.
~ Goapele
I did have pushback in the beginning of my career because my parents weren't really sure what I was going to do with my life going in the route of makeup. I was planning on medical school, so when I threw the makeup wrench at them, they were not expecting that.
~ Manny MUA
My parents didn't want me to do this. My dad, when I told him I wanted to wrestle, he told me no, if you're going to play any sports, play baseball.
~ Kamaru Usman
I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went on this random journey to go be a professional wrestler.
~ Daniel Bryan
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.
~ Paulo Coelho
My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of fact, I couldn't wait to get away from it.
~ Philip Kerr
Many children's writers don't have children of their own.
~ Mark Haddon
NejsilnÄ›jÅ¡ími komplexy jsou otcovský a mateÃ…â"¢ský komplex. Jsou koncentrátem vaÅ¡eho vztahu s rodi?i. Tyto komplexy ale patÃ…â"¢í pouze vám, jsou vzpomínkou na váÅ¡ vztah s rodi?i, a nic nevypovídají o vaÅ¡ich rodi?ích.
~ Guy Corneau
Sunday school: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
~ H. L. Mencken
Love your parents - while we are busy growing up, they are growing old.
~ Harlan Coben
Children view their parents as both intrepid and omnipotent.
~ Harlan Coben
The missing girl—there had been unceasing news reports, always flashing to that achingly ordinary school portrait of the vanished teen, you know the one, with the rainbow-swirl background, the girl's hair too straight, her smile too self-conscious, then a quick cut to the worried parents on the front lawn, microphones surrounding them, Mom silently tearful, Dad reading a statement with quivering lip—that girl, that missing girl had just walked past Edna Skylar.
~ Harlan Coben
boy is getting all Ds and Fs in math so his parents send him to Catholic school. On his first report card, his parents are shocked to see their son getting straight As. When his parents ask him why, he says, "Well, when I went into the chapel and saw that guy nailed to a plus sign, I knew they were serious.
~ Harlan Coben
it be nicer to think your parents, who worked hard, gave you those presents instead of some creepy stranger?
~ Harlan Coben
Children view their parents as both intrepid and omnipotent—yet here their parents are, gazing up at me, the doctor, with a fear-filled longing normally reserved for religious rapture. What
~ Harlan Coben
Before that night, Susan Loriman had not been a religious person. Growing up, her parents had taken her to church every Sunday, but it never stuck. When she began to blossom into what many considered a beauty, her parents kept a stern eye. Eventually Susan rebelled, of course, but that horrible night sent her back to the fold. She
~ Harlan Coben
Friends and lovers were great, he thought, but sometimes a boy just wanted his mom and dad.
~ Harlan Coben
Ligou para sua mãe pelo telefone do carro e garantiu que estava bem. Ela lhe pediu que ligasse para o pai, ele é que estava preocupado. Myron ligou para o pai e garantiu que estava bem. Ele o mandou ligar para mãe, ela é que estava preocupada. Comunicação perfeita, o segredo de um casamento feliz
~ Harlan Coben
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
~ Steve Jobs