Top 1200 Great Parents Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

I was lucky enough to be with my parents until I was 14. Having my parents tell me that I could do anything. I was special. I matter.

I already came upon the world as a extraordinary human being; to my parents' great horror, I was equipped with a clubfoot which, however, did not hamper my rapid progress.

I had a great relationship with my parents, but there's something about hanging out with your older sibling that just has a whole new level of cool for a kid.

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

You become friends with your kids' friends' parents. That's just the way it's gonna be. And sometimes you luck out, and it's great.

I had a mini-breakdown and had to move back in with my parents. But then I got a great therapist and it saved my life.

The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.

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.

My parents have always been very supportive. But now that I play in Blink, all of my parents' friends are so jazzed that it makes my folks excited.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

My parents are proof that arranged marriages can work. It is a great part of my culture but I grew up in a completely different place, so I wouldn't want anyone to arrange a marriage for me.

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents.

I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.

My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom and dad I learned about love, family and respecting people. They never went to high school but they had within them every element that makes a great American. They had pride and a great work ethic and they knew how to do things the right way.

Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

Obviously there are many, many ways of being an outsider, but having immigrant parents is one of them. For one thing, it makes you a translator: there are all kinds of things that American parents know about life in America ,and about being a kid in America, that non-American parents don't know, and in many cases it falls on the kid to tell them, and also to field questions from Americans about their parents' native country.

My sister and I both benefited hugely from the great security that our parents had given us, and then we went off and squandered it all rushing around in showbiz.

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

Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual case.

I have a great work ethic because I've watched my parents work super hard.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

I've got great genetics from parents, and I'm not moaning that I have such a hard life. Trust me; it's worked out so much more in the positive then the negative.

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

My parents have been a great strength to me. They never forced me into anything, and I have the final say.

In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

Being able to provide for your kids in a way that maybe your parents couldn't do for you is a great feeling.

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.

Today, youths say 'Hi and Bye' even to their parents. Instead, they should touch parents' feet as a mark of respect.

If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.

I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.

All parents want their children to have respectable jobs that pay well. However, my parents are both open-minded and they respect the choice I made.

We're excited to have kids. I think Linda and I will be great parents, and we're excited to start that chapter of our lives.

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on behalf of my parents.

My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

Children need parents who model self-discipline rather than preach it. They learn from what their parents are actually willing to do; not from what they say they do.

My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.

When my parents gave me that first guitar, I became totally obsessed. I would stay in my room all the time with it, and my parents were concerned.

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

To Steve and Jane Beshear, I am grateful for your wisdom and passion for helping the people of our great state. You have been wonderful parents.

I think the love small children give to their parents is unconditional. Even if children are abandoned or nearly killed by their parents, they will still love them. No matter what. That's why parents shouldn't let their children go, no matter what. She betrayed my love. I don't want to see her.

I'm most proud of my kids, for one, and my family and my parents. Outside of that - what am I proud of? I don't know. I don't look back, I just go forward. I'm just proud of the fact that my parents were immigrants and we had nearly nothing, and all of the sudden, with the help of a lot of people and my parents as a model, I amounted to something. And I'm doing some very decent work.

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

My parents made a great sacrifice to make sure that we had something wonderful at Christmas, and through the help of the state and others, we were able to have a good meal.

I remember what it was like when my parents couldn't help me with my homework because they couldn't speak the language, or being a translator for my parents. I did that a lot.

Some people don't need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.

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.

People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.

Dick and I became increasingly committed to helping other parents - parents from low-income families in particular.

My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

A kid never listens to what his parents tell him to do. The parents actually act as an example of what their kids themselves do.

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.