300 Quotes on Parents

• My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.

  Author: Ziyi Zhang

• Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• With a lot of kids in the business, the parents get as twisted as they do, and there's a lot of opportunities to go their own way, but anyone has that opportunity.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

  Author: Tina Yothers

• It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

  Author: Fay Wray

• Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

  Author: James Worthy

• All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

  Author: John Woolman

• I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.

  Author: Douglas Wood

• I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

  Author: Norman Wisdom

• When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

  Author: Henry Winkler

• Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

  Author: April Winchell

• Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.

  Author: Earl Wilson

• Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

  Author: Thomas Willis

• Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"

  Author: George Will

• Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  Author: Oscar Wilde

• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  Author: Olivia Wilde

• Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

  Author: Kim Wilde

• My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

  Author: Kim Wilde

• The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

  Author: Simon Wiesenthal

• The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

  Author: George Whitefield

• I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.

  Author: Shaun White

• I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

  Author: Ryan White

• Both of my parents were musicians.

  Author: Bryan White

• It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

  Author: Paul Weyrich

• I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom.

  Author: Samuel West

• A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

  Author: Allen West

• I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

  Author: Devon Werkheiser

• When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

  Author: Bernice Weissbourd

• I would say that my parents were supportive of me.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

  Author: Evelyn Waugh

• Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  Author: Alan Watts

• Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

  Author: Wendy Wasserstein

• There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

  Author: Rick Warren

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  Author: Zach Wamp

• There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

  Author: John Walton

• As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.

  Author: John Walters

• Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

  Author: John Walters

• Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.

  Author: John Walters

• Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

  Author: Barbara Walters

• I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.

  Author: Jim Walsh

• I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

  Author: Jeannette Walls

• We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?

  Author: David Wallace

• Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

  Author: Herschel Walker

• Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

  Author: Herschel Walker

• Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

  Author: Kurt Vonnegut

• Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

  Author: A. Vogt

• I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

  Author: Don Vliet

• When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

  Author: Tony Visconti

• Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

  Author: Judith Viorst

• It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

  Author: Troy Vincent

• All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

  Author: Gore Vidal

• What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

  Author: Linda Vester

• I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

  Author: Linda Vester

• The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

  Author: Jack Valenti

• Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

  Author: Peter Ustinov

• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

  Author: John Updike

• I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

  Author: Mark Udall

• It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.

  Author: Alanna Ubach

• We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

  Author: Hunter Tylo

• My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

  Author: Aisha Tyler

• My parents separated when I was younger.

  Author: Tina Turner

• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

  Author: Charles Tupper

• From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash.

  Author: Sophie Tucker

• You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  Author: Mac Thornberry

• Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

  Author: Marlo Thomas

• My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

  Author: Toots Thielemans

• Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

  Author: Joe Tex

• I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

  Author: John Tesh

• Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.

  Author: Cathy Tempelsman

• My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because I loved sports and picked them up easily.

  Author: Channing Tatum

• My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

  Author: Quentin Tarantino

• Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

  Author: Koichi Tanaka

• My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

  Author: Amy Tan

• You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

  Author: William Tammeus

• My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

  Author: Amber Tamblyn

• I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

  Author: Gloria Swanson

• The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

  Author: Shinichi Suzuki

• Children learn to smile from their parents.

  Author: Shinichi Suzuki

• My parents not only did it for a living, but they were really good at it.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

• I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.

  Author: Ethan Suplee

• I think the number one thing that I find important is the importance of honesty with your friends and your parents, if you can be. But I think that telling people how you really feel, being who you truly are, being safe and taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

  Author: Emma Stone

• My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.

  Author: Emma Stone

• When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.

  Author: Emma Stone

• My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• My own parents were touchy-feely.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?

  Author: Robert Sternberg

• My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

  Author: Gwen Stefani

• Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

  Author: Willie Stargell

• The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

  Author: Morgan Spurlock

• The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Author: Benjamin Spock

• Different parents have different standards for their children.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

• I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing that parents need to be able to evaluate, and students themselves, when they make a selection.

  Author: Margaret Spellings

• And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

  Author: Lisa Snowdon

• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  Author: Brittany Snow

• I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

  Author: Margaret Smith

• That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

  Author: Iain Smith

• The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.

  Author: George Smathers

• I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

  Author: Erika Slezak

• My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

  Author: Erika Slezak

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  Author: Isaac Singer

• They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

  Author: Sarah Silverman

• The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

  Author: Frank Shorter

• One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

  Author: Bobby Sherman

• A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.

  Author: Mary Shelley

• My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

  Author: Silvan Shalom

• I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

  Author: Shakira

• I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

  Author: Peter Shaffer

• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  Author: John Sexton

• My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.

  Author: Jerry Seinfeld

• After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

  Author: David Sedaris

• I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

  Author: Leah Sears

• In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

  Author: Josh Schwartz

• That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera.

  Author: Gunther Schuller

• It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

  Author: Phyllis Schlafly

• Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

  Author: Otto Schily

• My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

  Author: Boz Scaggs

• I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling against your parents - but first you have to know them.

  Author: Greta Scacchi

• When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there.

  Author: Fritz Sauckel

• Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

  Author: Virginia Satir

• So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

  Author: Virginia Satir

• Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  Author: George Santayana

• Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

  Author: Mark Sanford

• I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

  Author: Deion Sanders

• Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

  Author: Morley Safer

• After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• My parents were angry, but they were relieved that I was in good condition. They had been afraid the Russians would torture me. They told me not to do it again!

  Author: Mathias Rust

• My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

  Author: Rita Rudner

• You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.

  Author: Dave Rowntree

• A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

  Author: Philip Roth

• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

  Author: Henry Rollins

• I get bitter, angry and disbelieving and I tell my kids there a lot of idiots out there. I also want them to know that being successful is not the real world - that their parents get treated better because they're on TV.

  Author: Al Roker

• Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

  Author: Fred Rogers

• When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

  Author: David Rockefeller

• As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.

  Author: Jay Roach

• Sometimes I would like the opportunity to do character-driven comedy and that's really what I was trying to do in Meet The Parents. I think in a way this is a more old fashioned type of comedy.

  Author: Jay Roach

• Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

  Author: Herb Ritts

• I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

  Author: Arthur Rimbaud

• Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

  Author: Cathy Rigby

• My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

  Author: Alan Rickman

• Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

  Author: Samuel Richardson

• If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

  Author: Kevin Richardson

• Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

  Author: Bill Richardson

• Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

  Author: Jef Richards

• I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

  Author: Giovanni Ribisi

• I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

  Author: Ryan Reynolds

• And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently.

  Author: Paul Reiser

• I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

  Author: Rob Reiner

• A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

  Author: Martha Reeves

• I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

  Author: Robert Redford

• I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

  Author: Ron Reagan

• It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

  Author: Michael Reagan

• I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.

  Author: John Ratzenberger

• As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

  Author: Quintilian

• Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

  Author: Martha Quinn

• All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

  Author: Paul Prudhomme

• I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

  Author: Victoria Principal

• I thought it was such a unique concept to play parents who happen to be super heroes and have a son who is going through puberty and starting high school.

  Author: Kelly Preston

• You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

  Author: Priscilla Presley

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  Author: Orson Pratt

• Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

  Author: Anthony Powell

• Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

  Author: Anthony Powell

• I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.

  Author: Franka Potente

• The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

  Author: Natalie Portman

• As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

  Author: Sidney Poitier

• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

  Author: Plato

• No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

  Author: Frank Pittman

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

  Author: Frank Pittman

• One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

  Author: Mary Pipher

• So no, it's not all in the genes, but what isn't in the genes isn't in the family environment either. It can't be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents.

  Author: Steven Pinker

• Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

  Author: Steven Pinker

• Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

  Author: Alessandro Piero

• I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.

  Author: Ryan Phillippe

• It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

  Author: Gina Philips

• Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

  Author: Michelle Pfeiffer

• Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.

  Author: Rick Perry

• I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

  Author: Luke Perry

• My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

  Author: Martin Perl

• I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

  Author: Martin Perl

• My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

  Author: Martin Perl

• About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

  Author: Martin Perl

• The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

  Author: Martin Perl

• To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

  Author: Pope Paul II

• You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

  Author: Ann Patchett

• My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

  Author: Andy Partridge

• If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

  Author: Robert Parker

• My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

  Author: Sara Paretsky

• I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

  Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  Author: Rafael Palmeiro

• Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

  Author: Carl Paladino

• On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

  Author: Amos Oz

• We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.

  Author: Major Owens

• Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

  Author: Heather O'Rourke

• We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

  Author: Jerry Only

• David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

  Author: Shaquille O'Neal

• Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

  Author: Ashley Olsen

• Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

  Author: Marvin Olasky

• Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

  Author: Maureen O'Hara

• I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

  Author: Catherine O'Hara

• The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

  Author: Madalyn O'Hair

• In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.

  Author: Sandra Oh

• I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.

  Author: Dan O'Brien

• As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.

  Author: Michelle Obama

• My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

  Author: Barack Obama

• My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

  Author: Paul Nurse

• The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

  Author: Trevor Nunn

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  Author: Ted Nugent

• I think no matter what you do you go through stages when you play. There was a number of times when I didn't do very well or was tired. It was too much to combine school and tennis altogether. Parents need to step in and say, take a little time off, do something fun.

  Author: Jana Novotna

• I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

  Author: Greg Norman

• While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

  Author: Craig Nelson

• My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

  Author: Holly Near

• My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

  Author: Daniel Nathans

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  Author: Ogden Nash

• Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

  Author: Ogden Nash

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

  Author: Ogden Nash

• In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.

  Author: Parminder Nagra

• My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

  Author: Mike Myers

• I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.

  Author: Ellen Muth

• Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

  Author: Ellen Muth

• More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from the reduction in the marriage penalty, and more than 1.1 million parents will have the advantage of an increased child tax credit.

  Author: Tim Murphy

• Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

  Author: Lord Mountbatten

• My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

  Author: Edwin Moses

• My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

  Author: Steven Morrissey

• The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

  Author: Jim Morrison

• Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

  Author: Robert Morgan

• Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

  Author: Marguerite Moreau

• Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have parents who are really lame.

  Author: Thurston Moore

• Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

  Author: Roger Moore

• 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.

  Author: Roger Moore

• I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

  Author: Sun Moon

• There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

  Author: Ricardo Montalban

• I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries.

  Author: Dominic Monaghan

• We are all members of a single humanity, inside our hearts we all speak the same language, we all love our children and our parents, we all live in the same world.

  Author: Marc Molne

• My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.

  Author: George Mitchell

• My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died - we're not sure - either at or shortly after his birth, and he and all of his siblings were placed in orphanages in the Boston area.

  Author: George Mitchell

• I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.

  Author: George Mitchell

• Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

  Author: Liza Minelli

• You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

  Author: Liza Minelli

• It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.

  Author: Wentworth Miller

• The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

  Author: Mitch Miller

• Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.

  Author: Joe Miller

• Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

  Author: Alice Miller

• The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

  Author: Alice Miller

• Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

  Author: James Merrill

• I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

  Author: Ethel Merman

• A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

  Author: H. Mencken

• Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized; in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

  Author: Simon Meer

• Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity.

  Author: Donald Medeiros

• I was born and raised in China, and my parents were missionaries.

  Author: Jayne Meadows

• Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.

  Author: James Meade

• As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

  Author: Margaret Mead

• Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

  Author: Mignon McLaughlin

• I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

  Author: Ben McKenzie

• I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

  Author: Ewan McGregor

• We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

  Author: Tim McGraw

• My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults.

  Author: Bobby McFerrin

• Well I think that's probably one of a few, where I grew up in the City of New York, it's got a lot of energy, my parents are Irish-American so there was a bit of yelling going on in my house but it seemed normal.

  Author: John McEnroe

• Frequently parents forget that children are people. I don't try to treat Kristen as an adult, but I do try to treat her as a person, with a child's sensibilities.

  Author: Kent McCord

• We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

  Author: Linda McCartney

• It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

  Author: Joyce Maynard

• The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

  Author: Joyce Maynard

• I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

  Author: Melissa Maur

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