Quotes About Parents

I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.