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Quotes About Parents

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.
~ Allyson Felix
The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.
~ Joe Strummer
You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit.
~ Venus Williams
I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.
~ Mike Pence
Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.
~ Lewis Sperry Chafer
Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.
~ Milton Jones
At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.
~ P.C. Cast, Chosen
I come from a very big family. Nine parents.
~ Jim Gaffigan
I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.
~ Wendy Liebman
There's no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down and get out of the way than it is to get clobbered by some parental tidal wave.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.
~ Daniel Tosh
The grown-ups, or maybe I should say the parents, ate in the dining room.
~ Ann Darby
The saddest realization I've had in my life is that my parents are people. Sad, human people. I aged a decade in that moment.
~ Amy Schumer
I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch
~ Neal Shusterman, UnDivided
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
~ Barbara Walters
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does
~ Lewis Blaine Hershey
In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
~ Herodotus
The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.
~ Christopher Paolini
Goodrich eyed his parents with growing awareness. "How did the police find him?" "I called them." They peered into each other's faces for a long, mute moment, Goodrich pondering absently that he was looking into a mirror that reflected how he himself would appear in another forty years, if he somehow managed to survive the insanity that Vietnam had brought him and live that long.
~ James Webb
My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
~ James Wood
The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
~ Jami Gertz
Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.
~ Jamie Oliver
Then the parents might be released from their promise. But in that case, the monks at the same time would be placing themselves, knowingly and willingly, above the clearly manifested will of God.
~ Jan Guillou