Quotes About Parents

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

I didn't realize until high school that the man wearing a cowboy hat on the poster in our garage was actually Ronald Reagan, so my parents just - it was how we were, I grew up on five acres of land in Flagstaff, Arizona and we really just lived a conservative lifestyle.

I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.

Parents will be parents. Even now, my mom asks me sometimes, 'When are you going to go back and get a real job?'

I love real women that don't have to be saints, who can be selfish and act out against their parents or like the wrong guy, because that's life. That's my life, at least.

For the parents of the youth of Africa, please give your kids a chance to realise their dreams.

There are certain things I talk to my mom and certain things I speak to dad for. But I also know that it has never been that I can tell my mum something and my dad won't know. They are very dependent on each other even though they may not say it or realise it.

My parents had something to say about everything I did. As a kid, I thought they were against me. Now I realise they were mostly right.

It's shocking when you start to grow up and realise that your parents had a life before you! But why would you? Sometimes you don't really have a need to.

I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.

Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.

The best thing my parents did was to make me study in Chennai. I was in a school where most others around me were also from film industry families so none of us realised what our parents were.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

I am in love with dance and my parents accept that gracefully.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for.

I loved the stories my parents and grandparents would read to me.

I'm just grateful that my parents still love each other.

I knew my whole life that I had to make ends meet or I would be ashamed of myself. I had a lot of pressure from my parents. So that's where my vision comes from. It's not to be a great artist, it's always to be like, 'Dad, look, I didn't let you down.'

I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.

I think the greatest gift your parents can give you if you want to be a comedian is good taste.

When people say, 'You seem so grounded; you seem so normal,' I think it's the way I was raised and the way my sister and I were brought up by our parents.