Quotes About Parents

With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.

Along with my will power, it was my parents who stood by me like a pillar of strength in my most challenging phase of life.

If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.

My parents, especially my mother, has been my pillar of strength.

I always wanted to see my parents without any stress and accordingly knocked every audition for an opportunity.

We want people to be less stressed about having health care and being able to afford health care or at-home care for their elderly parents.

When I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment - a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson's building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.

You build up coming out to this horrible moment. It's so stressful, there's so much adrenaline, and there's so much primal fear - even though I know my parents to be good people - that they're going to reject you.

My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

My parents were very strict Muslims, and they weren't shy about showing it.

I'm as strict as my parents - I have high expectations, too. I'd never ask the kids to do something outside their capabilities, but I'll encourage them not to be lazy and to try hard.

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

My parents were very, very strict parents, and they were not used to this new, you know, American custom of letting your children sleep in someone else's house.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

My parents are really quite strict, so I have to be home at a certain time - even now, at the age of 25.

My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

My parents were strict but loving.

My parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.

I relate to 'Dangal' because of the way it presents the state's culture and how Haryanvi parents are. They might act strict, but will always motivate their children to do their best and will stand by them, always being emotionally connected to them.

My parents were like these hippies almost: they are free-spirited, but they were also strict - which seems like a weird dynamic - but it worked.

My parents were very strict and had rules for me and, if ever I was playing outside, I always had a set time to come back in.

We had a happy childhood, our parents were strict but loving, and I was together with my sisters, who were my best friends.