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Quotes About Parents

At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
~ K. A. Applegate
As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.
~ Rumer Willis
While my mother lived, I always felt to a certain degree as if I had somebody who was my superior and who exercised a mysterious protection over me. I belonged to something - I hung to something - there is nothing that has so much reverence and religion in it as affection to parents.
~ William Godwin
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
~ Saint Basil
I felt grateful to Ataturk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.
~ Elif Batuman
The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.
~ Madalyn Murray O'Hair
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.
~ Sanjeev Bhaskar
I grew up in a good family with good parents, and I was able to dream big and have the support to live it out.
~ Liam Hemsworth
In India, sports as a career has its own set of obstacles, be it from parents or society, but Harjeet, despite circumstances, and without any support decided to fight and lived his dream of being a remarkable player.
~ Ammy Virk
My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
~ Kareena Kapoor Khan
I felt that my decisions, whether good or bad, would always be supported by my parents, because I was loved and respected.
~ Tom Sturridge
Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.
~ Edwin Moses
I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
~ Billy Eichner
I am really fortunate to have parents who supported my plan to become an actress when I was a little kid. And then there was my grandma. She was the best. She was always there and ready to drive me to all my plays and stuff.
~ Keiko Agena
I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.
~ Jacob Whitesides
I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring - and my parents supported it, for better or worse.
~ Billy Eichner
My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
~ Paloma Elsesser
I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.
~ Allison Janney
Both of my parents have loved and supported me from my very first strides.
~ Hilary Knight
Mum and Dad used to always follow me and support me, taking me to Newcastle on a Sunday morning after getting up at 7 A.M. They have always supported my football but always told me how important school was.
~ Harry Maguire
I was lucky that my parents had supported and guided me with a positive framework.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I've been lucky in that my parents have always supported me with my cricket, but I've seen so many young Asian girls who don't keep up their sporting interests after the age of 12 or 13.
~ Isa Guha
I was very lucky in that my parents supported my racing so much - they just said 'whatever you want to achieve, if you work hard enough you can achieve it.' They never, ever let me believe that, as a female, I couldn't compete in a man's world.
~ Susie Wolff
I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability.
~ Mike Scully