Parent Quotes - Page 142

I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was born and raised in the U.S. That really gave me an edge. I understand that, from the experts, if you grew up bilingual, your brain kind of gets wired to accept a new language. It was a very serious deal because not only did I have to learn Russian to a high degree in order to function as a necessary member of the crew, but also I knew that the Russians that came over that made an effort and had some success in learning English, those were the folks we trusted.

I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.

The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

My parents are pretty liberal. But they were just you know trying to look out for my innocence or whatever. But my babysitter had "Forever" [by Judy Blume]. And I said "Well I've read Judy Blume books, can I borrow that?" And she said no, this one's not appropriate for you. Which obviously, got me really worked up. So I took it.

My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children!

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can't teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They're their own person.

I was 5 when I won my first song and dance competition, and my parents asked me if that is what I wanted to do, and I said, "Yeah." At 5, how can you know that? On some level, I knew that was my gift.

Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people don't tie it down tight enough.

The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward to the day when the junior partner (the adolescent) will take over the business of running his or her own life.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

I've never wanted to chuck my mortgage, drop the kids off at their grandparents' and run gloriously naked in fields of flax.

Parenthood means becoming comfortable with the fact that there are things outside your control, things that end and fail, just as most utopias end and by some measure fail. And just because they're a failure doesn't mean there isn't value there.

I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed to feel like.

Parents don't get that, though. They don't understand about the fragility of teen friendships. They don't understand how easy it is for things to break apart, how someone you thought would be by your side forever can just disappear, or turn on you, or decide she likes someone more than she likes you. Parents always talk about romantic relationships being so ephemeral and fleeting in high school. What they don't get is that friendships can be the same way.