Quotes About Parents

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

When I was a kid, my parents never let me use race as an excuse. They'd say, 'When you walk into a room and it's all white, those kids have to work to stand out, not you.'

When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.

My parents wanted me to go to law school!

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.

All that I have learnt about cinema is from my father but all that we have learnt about life is from my mother.

The honest thing is that my parents wanted to help people. That is part of my responsibility, to carry on that legacy.

I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

There was a time my parents never listened to me. They wouldn't have forced me into marriage had they heard me out. But now, they support me.

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.

I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.

Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.

Love always comes up to my mind when I think about my parents.

My parents are both music lovers; they are not musicians.