Quotes About Parents

Obviously there are times when you don't listen to your parents, when you are looking for something in your life - you're searching. But God has given me faith and helped provide me with the answers that I've needed.

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

Knowing that your parents are okay makes you feel secure in the world.

My mother was so ignorant of what could have befallen me and was probably so exhausted - she was one of the first generation of single parents as well - that it was all a bit overwhelming. So the naivety of parents meant we did have a certain amount of freedom.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

I was raised the right way, my parents did a great job, I owe them everything. Without them, I'm not the man I am today.

I was brought up on a farm in Oxford but my parents always had a flat in London, and we'd go to pretty smart restaurants, so it's always seemed important to eat well.

I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when you take parents who are forcing their children to do anything, I don't think it's healthy.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines.

Holiday drinking in my family happens about as often as Sarah Palin is spotted reading the 'New York Times.' Neither of my parents are big drinkers, probably because they each had a parent that was.

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.

I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.

I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

My parents have always encouraged me to follow my dreams and do what makes me happy.

My parents have left a legacy in our family of service to others.

I abide to God's will and I feel that from up above, God and my parents have guided my career.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.