Parent Quotes - Page 117

What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.

You can read the best experts on child care. You can listen to those who have been there. You can take a whole childbirth and child-care course without missing a lesson. But you won't really know a thing about yourselves and each other as parents, or your baby as a child, until you have her in your arms. That's the moment when the lifelong process of bringing up a child into the fold of the family begins.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.

Everything is ideal to its parent.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything

The movie [Aquarius] is about love, ultimately, and it was made with love. There were a lot of parents in the crew, and they were the best crew I had ever worked with. Everybody knew the construction of each scene, and were completely invested in every shooting day.

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.

When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early '70s - all the way through the '70s, actually - a lot of the bands that were around had kids at a very young age. So they were all working on that concept way early on. And I figured if they can do it, I could do it, too.

As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

It isn't easy for everyone in Germany to make ends meet through well-paid work in Germany. You have to have sufficient skills and work hard. And I also know that we have much too much poverty and inequality here. Still, our parents and grandparents built an incredibly prosperous and peaceful country. One shouldn't, of course, play down the degree to which this is dependent on our economic strength. The truth is that Moscow, Beijing and Washington have one thing in common: They don't value the European Union at all. They disregard it.

Teach your parents well.

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.