Quotes About Parents

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different.

I think I told my parents I wanted to be a writer, just so they'd kind of think I had some direction in life. It made it easier to pick out classes at college, like, 'Oh, this is writing classes, that's what I'm doing.'

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision to leave.

I have so much respect for when my parents did. They did not raise me talking about money and I would have disappointed them if I went to China.

It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.

History is a story like any other, but black history is a story so devoid of logic that it frustrates the young reader. The young readers in my house, told of slavery and segregation, asked in disbelief, 'What? Why?' We - the parents of black children, the parents of all children - still need to tell that story.

The reason children accept discipline from their parents is because they know their parents love them.

I am very cautious, and there are not too many decisions I've not discussed with my parents, whether that be about my career or away from the field.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.

As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home where there were a lot of rules. I didn't have 'yes' parents.

My parents were involved in the record industry, so I was exposed to the arts very early.

I think it is right that government should have passed legislation that requires that relationships and sex education is taught in schools, but at the same time, I also agree that it is right that parents should be able to choose the moment at which their children become exposed to that information.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

I was very lucky, my parents were very encouraging, and both my grandmothers. They had exquisite taste.

Though my parents have seen me in all possible avatars, my extended family has been pretty excited since the time they've gotten to know that 'Manmarziyaan' is a story based in Amritsar.

I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.

What I love about my parents and Jamaican families is that exuberance we have, which I think is where I get my joy from, my energy and my attitude.

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.