Quotes About Parents

Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents.

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

If you are beautiful, that's a gift from your parents. If you make your life beautiful, that's a gift for your parents.

Parents, problems, friends, crushes, love, fake love, dating, responsibility, drama, heartache, failures, stress, happiness...It's life.

Parents, problems, friends, fakes, boys, love, crush, dating, responsibility, drama, heartache, failures, stress, happiness...It's life.

A child learns lessons in life more from his unhappy parents than his happy ones.

Family is the first school for young children, and parents are powerful models.

Parents sleeping = You being quiet as a mouse. You sleeping = Parents decide to vacuum for 2 hours.

This water lily was the same, and it was also like one of those miserable creatures whose singular torment, repeated indefinitely throughout eternity, aroused the curiosity of Dante, who would have asked the tormented creature himself to recount its cause and its particularities at greater length had Virgil, striding on ahead, not forced him to hurry after immediately, as my parents did me.

In actual fact, I had not imagined there to have been anything sensual, or even sentimental, in the Baron's offers. I had said that to my parents out of sheer foolishness. But the future sometimes dwells in us without our knowing it, and the words thought to be untruthful describe an imminent reality.

Unfortunately my parents had recourse to principles entirely different from those which I suggested they should adopt

While the United States bars FGM within its borders, there is no federal law yet that punishes parents for taking their daughters to their countries of origin for FGM. Bills to deter the transport of girls for FGM have been introduced since 2010, but have not yet passed, which means girls who do not receive an illegal FGM here may still be transported to another country.

In addition, the Supreme Court has explained that children have rights independent of their parents: Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full legal discretion when they can make that choice for themselves.111