Parent Quotes - Page 101

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.

Terrorists cut people's heads off and that's what they do in the Planned Parenthood clinics.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.

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.

we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

The old fundamental principles must continue to apply, even in our changing society: Democracy knows neither master nor slave. Equal education opportunities for all, no matter where they come from and no matter who their parents are. Equal access as well when it comes to digitalization.

The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or by accident. They grasped their tortured limbs, their tiny burning legs until they were no longer able to stand or run. And then they would crash to the ground where they would writhe in the bubbling tar until death released them from their physical misery.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.

~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.