Parent Quotations | Page 6

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

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?

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

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.

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.

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

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous, and transcends heartbreak and disappointment.

I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

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.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

My parents don't really watch movies at all.

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.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

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

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction....

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most you can do, I think.

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

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

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

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

I have a very close relationship with my parents.

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

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.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

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.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists rights to free speech, which is something that we respect.

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

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

My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you.

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.