Top 1200 Parents Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

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.

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

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.

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

The parents that we speak to, and the parents that are our customers, are very comfortable with the way that McDonald's fits into their lives.

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

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.

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.

Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

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.

My parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously, they're not even my real parents.

My parents are pretty strict 'education first - fun later' kind of parents.

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

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 cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

With the marketplace urging parents to buy all manner of things to make their babies ‘smart,’ Gallagher’s book offers parents a view based in science on how much babies really know and figure out on their own. Parents will have fun with this book and gain new respect and awe for their babies’ amazing capabilities.

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.

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

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

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.

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.

Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents.

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.

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.

Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

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

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.

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.

My parents just had faith in me, and thank God they did. They weren't stage parents in the slightest.

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 both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I learned from my parents is that the fancy degree is just a foot in the door, and there are a lot of very smart people out there who don't necessarily have the fancy degrees. And given the opportunity, they can do amazing things.

My parents did a great job of raising me and my brother. Very supportive parents.

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.

We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize.

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.