Parent Quotes - Page 140

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

I can't save you like that Ty. What you did to me wasn't this brilliant thing, like you think it was. You took me away from everything - my parents, my friends, my life. You took me to the sand and the heat, the dirt and isolation. And you expected me to love you. And that's the hardest bit. Because I did, or at least, I loved something out there. But I hated you too. I can't forget that.

I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're going through.

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

I'm born and raised in Dusseldorf, and my parents emigrated to Germany sometime in the '70s, so I grew up completely different from any other German. I found my love in hip-hop music. Hip-hop was delivering everything that I needed: the message, the lifestyle - everything. I fell in love with it and I'm still hip-hop.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.

My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

You know, and the fact that Nina Simone had to start playing in clubs and sing because her parents had moved north to support her music education. You know, so she had to sing. She had to make a living 'cause she was supporting her family. So poverty and race put her in this place which, you know, created enormous success, but it's not what her psyche was all about.

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.

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.