Quotes About Parents

Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learnt that you have to be determined. It's not violence or aggression. It's sheer determination.

I have immigrant, African parents. They would say, in their Nigerian accents, 'So you want to be a jester?' And I was like, 'I don't want to be a court jester, Ma. I want to be a comedian.'

From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.

I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.

Instead of cribbing that good work is not coming my way, I look at the positive side where I see no pressure from my parents to work for the sake of it.

I've talked too much, and I know that my life must be boring compared to yours. No so much about my parents, of course, but living here, I mean. No it's not boring at all. It's interesting. Kind of like... reading a new book when you turns the pages and experience something unexpected.

cold that I'm shivering. I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't afraid. I don't want to die, and thanks to my parents—my

Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

The conditions that surrounded this youth in the airy fastnesses of the Dinaric Alps all made against the hopes he nursed of becoming an electrician ; and not the least impediment was the fond wish of his parents at Siniljan Lika that he should maintain the priestly tradition, and benefit by the preferment likely to come through his uncle, now Metropolitan in Bosnia.

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Siempre creemos que a nuestros padres les alcanzará un rayo y que, por arte de magia, se convertirán en las personas que querrías que fueran, o que volverán a ser las personas que eran. Pero eso no va a pasar nunca. Y, aunque sepas que nunca va a pasar, sigues teniendo la esperanza de que pase.

But it's a wound that can't fully heal, isn't it, not to have the full love of those who made you. The indifference of Iona's parents, the full mess of Meara's." "Which is worse, do you think?

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

Her mom and dad are both doctors and want her to follow her dream, not turn out the way they have, no matter how much it costs them.

To both my parents, the world is a battle for attention, a war to be heard.

Your being born make your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan just because you want something better.

Please don't feel hurt, Satan, but my parents raised me to believe you didn't exist. My mom and dad said you and God were invented in the superstitious, backward pea brains of hillbilly preachers and Republican hypocrites.

Give me amnesia. Flash. Give me new parents. Flash.

There's a ter­ri­ble dark joy when the on­ly per­son who knows all your se­crets is fi­nal­ly dead. Your par­ents. Your doc­tor. Your ther­apist. Your case­work­er. The sun's out­side the bath­room win­dow try­ing to show us we're all be­ing stupid. All you have to do is look around.

People in love -with nurturing, attentive non-movie-star parents- they would never invent gravity. Nothing except deep misery leads to real success.