Parent Quotes - Page 138

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

I hope that the economic, financial and trade blockade against Cuba will be lifted, so that the economy can grow and wages can rise. But I also hope that we will not compromise our independence and become weak, and that we will never betray our ideals of equality and social justice. This is what our parents fought for, and we owe it to them.

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

People at shows have told me that they've shown my videos to their parents and families to help them come out of the closet. It's very inspiring that comedy can do that and can help people cope with everyday life and challenges through humor.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

This president [Barack Obama] is undermining our military. This president is more interested in funding Planned Parenthood than in funding the military.