Parents Quotes

You know how it is: you're a kid, and you see your parents do something, you tend not to want to follow that and do your own thing.

Brian Ortega

ParentsYouKnowWantFollowSee

People don't understand the devastation the murder of a child does to someone. Eighty percent of parents of murdered children wind up in divorce. The only thing you have in common is that horrible sadness. You can't see the joy of your previous life.

John Walsh

LifeChildrenJoyChildParentsYou

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

Shannon Woodward

ResponsibilityParentsYouMindsOut

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

Roger Moore

TimeParentsRegretWishDownAlive

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

Lisa Kristine

LifeSonDaughterParentsMy Life

Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.

Nancy Gibbs

StepParentsThinkSellingAheadUs

My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.

Chrissy Metz

AloneBrotherParentsMeMomSister

So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

Abraham Verghese

DogMyselfParentsHousePersonKid

I'm from a little island off of Massachusetts, Nantucket. It's hard getting into the music business from there, but my parents took me to songwriting festivals because I would write and produce my own music.

Meghan Trainor

BusinessMusicParentsMeFestivals

As a nonparent, I stand in awe of parents.

Philip Yancey

ParentsStandAwe

My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom's a nurse, which is how they met - in a hospital, over decaying bone.

Suki Waterhouse

ParentsMomNameHospitalPlastic

I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better.

Mike Huckabee

FamilyChangeSchoolParentsCollege

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

Diane Lane

ParentsNewCompanyWithoutMama

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

Karamo Brown

FatherMotherParentsWaySameKids

Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents.

Jesse Kellerman

WorkWifeParentsPeopleOpinions

In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

Brian Tyree Henry

MusicGreatParentsMeGrowing Up

I grew up in Baltimore, which is, you know, a city of extremes certainly, but my parents were very conservative. But they made me feel safe, and even though they were mortified at what I was doing, they encouraged it. I think because they thought, what else could I do?

John Waters

ParentsCityMeThinkThoughtDoing

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!

Sharon Creech

HomeMyselfTreeBrotherParents

'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it is very personal.

Rithy Panh

ParentsStoryPictureSaidPersonal

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

Lisa Lutz

CuriousParentsNeverBeingSimply

I think when I was 7, at school they got us all to write the story of Joseph and his brothers. I got a bit carried away and wrote 12 pages - everybody else wrote a page. The teacher was so impressed by it that she put it up on the wall for parents' evening. I thought, 'Oh, this is something that I really like that I also seem to be quite good at.'

Naomi Alderman

GoodTeacherSchoolParentsThink

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

Christian Scott

BrotherParentsMeBookBelieveYou

When I was little, my parents took away candy except on the weekends. So I'd rush out of my room at 5:00 A.M. on Saturday and sit in front of the TV, jamming my face with candy.

Dana Walden

ParentsFaceSaturdayCandyOutSit

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.

Melanie Laurent

LoveChildhoodParentsMeConfident

FirstPrev78910111213141516NextLast

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Parents