Quotes About Parents

Don't you want a relationship like your parents have? They look at each other with love and heart, not just as an asset." - Salvatore from The Tutor by Kailin Gow.

My parents thought that I had ADD when I was young," I say, remembering. "I couldn't concentrate well then. That just made me frustrated. Angry. It was only when I started running… running helped me to deal with it.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

My whole family actually, but my parents. I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business and I still have stuff to do at their house.

You are under great scrutiny when you are adopting, more so than natural parents. There are a lot of interviews, screenings etc.

Having such high-profile parents could be intimidating, but really, they've let me do my own thing and evolve as a person. When I changed my major from economics to film, they were cool about it.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

I blame my parents for never introducing me to good music.

We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for things.

When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed enough in our country to invest in our country, to create jobs, to make modern investments. And those are the things that we need to get back to with a balanced approach.

A word of advice - don't invite your parents to the after-party at 4 A. M.

Parents who've not had an education themselves find it hard to explain to their children what a decent education involves, and I completely understand that. Parents themselves need to be educated by schools about what sort of education they should expect for their children. I do think there's a heavy responsibility of the school.

My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team.

I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.

My parents went to Italy a lot, but I didn't go with them. I can't believe that!

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

My parents immigrated to this country from Jamaica with no more than a fifth-grade education.

The only reason I even learned Japanese was to figure out what my parents were getting me for Christmas.

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents don't really care about those kinds of things.

I joined a meetup group called Bay Area Parents for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which I had searched for, as I was going to start a group like it myself.

I was a sign language interpreter from when I was 17, but I don't do that anymore. Both of my parents were deaf. I grew up in a deaf household. I don't do any jokes about it really, but yeah that was my day job.

My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of bad jokes - but so do I. I tell a lot of bad jokes.

Putting one's parents out to pasture in a nursing home has very deep historical roots in Western Europe.