Quotes About Parents

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-distance lorry driver, and my mother, Mayleen, worked in catering.

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen.

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father.

My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family.

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

My mother works in a bank, and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

They may never say it, but your parents really are proud of you when you follow your heart and chase your dreams.

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents

On your birthday thank your parents and celebrate with them. They are the reason you are here and it is their day too.

Your friends may influence your decisions even more than your parents will.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.