Quotes About Parents

There was nothing that amazed me more than parents that could channel the loss of their child into a crusade to protect other people's kids.

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

I was never obsessed with being adopted. I was simply curious about my biological parents.

My parents were childhood sweethearts that are now divorced as of 2010. My mother is Kelle Huston, who is also my current manager, and father is Adeyemi Huston, who is not involved in my life.

It's always good to be home and see the parents, and hit up my favorite Chinatown cafes for curry chicken rice.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Since my childhood, I used to tell my parents to keep a tab on their health as if I was a doctor. Now I am officially one, and I hope my parents will finally take me seriously!

My mom and dad are great cooks. We ate meals at the dinner table, as a family.

A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.

Conservatives believe in individual choice for all parents and pupils, regardless of social or economic background, and our Better School Passport would tackle these problems head on by encouraging innovation to create new schools on one hand, while giving real choice and diversity to parents on the other.

Biggest influence is my parents. It's funny but my mom was the first one that allowed me to play tackle football. My dad was not ready to let me play yet. She definitely was the one who allowed me to do it. Obviously my dad taught me to throw and be a quarterback.

All children try to manipulate their parents, but their tactics are different, and women seem better able to cope with the tactics of girls than of boys.

My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

I would expect illegal alien parents to take care of their children. If it means the kids go back home with them, that's what happens. If it means there are legal relatives in the United States that can take care of them, that can happen to. But I believe it's the parents responsibility to take care of the kids.

I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

If we can at least make sure that our children are taken care of, that will ease the minds of their parents who are trying to work.

The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.

It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

My parents knew about the story of Aladdin far before the animation film. It's a folk tale that is very prevalent in Egypt.

I didn't realize how limiting an R rating is. I made 'Disco' as a cautionary tale for 14- and 15-year-old girls, and those girls were not allowed to see the film by their parents.

It is kind of a cliche that many Indian parents, especially in the U.S., want their kids to become doctors or engineers. But my parents encouraged me to turn to music when they found that I had the passion and talent.

It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.