Quotes About Parents

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

My mother was the favorite child of her parents. My father was the favorite child of his parents. The result of these two favorite children was me. And I am an only child. So I was convinced that I was the center of the universe.

My husband is an only child of only child parents.

I was fortunate that I was an only child. I had two parents who I really cared about, and they cared about me, so I got off to a good start.

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was lucky.

I had a very lovely childhood, and, being an only child, I'm very close to my mom and my dad.

I have really musical parents, and my dad was always encouraging, but the desire to get onstage and perform really did come from me. I'd never push my future children.

I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.

I have the armour of self-worth that comes from having open-minded parents who felt there was nothing wrong with me.

All parents want their children to have respectable jobs that pay well. However, my parents are both open-minded and they respect the choice I made.

My parents opened a bank account for me when I was really little, and I think I paid for some of my university education with my savings. I've always been a bit of a saver.

It's wonderful to see parents come together and openly support their LGBTQ kids at my shows.

My greatest influence came from my parents' love of classical music. We listened to a lot of arias and operas growing up.

My family was very musical. My brother is an opera singer; my parents both sang.

All'inizio i figli amano i genitori; diventando grandi li giudicano; qualche volta li perdonano

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

If my parents aren't ignoring me, they're insulting me. I like being ignored better.

Felicia was a dutiful child, and she loved her parents. It took a bit of doing, but she did it.

If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood. The best you can hope for is to make the sucker float.

If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood.

I've written more about my parents than any writer in the history of the world, and I still return to their mysterious effigies as I try to figure out what it all means—some kind of annunciation or maybe even a summing-up They still exert immense control over me even though they've been dead for so long. But I can conjure up their images without exerting a thimbleful of effort.