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Quotes About Parents

Asian parents, or a lot of parents in general, they have no idea what goes on in this industry. Mine were born in the Philippines, where it's different, because it is about who you know, and who knows what you have to do to get to the top? So they had a lot of that skepticism.
~ Manny Jacinto
My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.
~ Ted Ligety
The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.
~ Sidney Crosby
The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.
~ Louise Penny
I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.
~ Martha Finley
I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.
~ Melanie Laurent
I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.
~ Muhtar Kent
My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.
~ Jeaniene Frost
As far as Love Dare for Parents goes, you can download the book. You can buy it at bookstores...We're really excited about it and believe that it's going to make significant impact for parents.
~ Alex Kendrick
I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family.
~ Antoniette Costa
We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.
~ Kathryn Harrison
I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.
~ Gore Verbinski
Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.
~ Henry Rollins
I always felt love from both my parents.
~ Hugh Jackman
I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.
~ Jennifer Hudson
The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.
~ Jonathan Haidt
Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.
~ Julia Sawalha
I love family. In this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], my character is a successful OB-GYN and yet she goes back to her teenage years when she's with her parents. Like, that's me.
~ Karla Souza
I love both my parents dearly.
~ Kevin Eubanks
My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.
~ Lauryn Hill
The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
~ Michael Bergin
Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.
~ Mona Simpson
Girl Snouts." "We are not," contradicted Sarah. "We're Girl Scouts." "Hup, two, three, four. Hup, two, three, four," counted Mrs. Collins, who was the jolly type and did not understand how parents sometimes embarrass their children. Down the hill marched the class. Mitchell felt Bernadette's toe on his heel again and jumped in time.
~ Beverly Cleary
Nothing in the world was worse than unhappy parents. Nothing. When parents were unhappy, the whole world seemed to go wrong.
~ Beverly Cleary