Parent Quotes - Page 143

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society, are still given their appropriate reward.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents

I'm very connected to my own family, and maybe I like to explore the feelings that come up in families. I'm fortunate that my parents taught me to look further into why I might feel a certain way; it was normal to expose things.

It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.

My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.

When I was a kid, all of the parents and grandparents came out of the Depression Era. They were all freezing bread in their freezer, they were covering their sofas with plastic, and they had plastic runners on the floor. There was a great distance between them and anything authentic.

I'm the only gay person my parents know.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.

I've long had the idea that the factors that are most important in determining what we believe, how we live, and what we accomplish are matters of accident. That is, we did not choose where to be born, who our parents would be, or what we would look like. Yet those factors play an enormous role in almost everything about is. W/regard to issues of cosmopolitanism, the most obvious point is that how we identify ourselves in terms of nationality, cultural subgroups, and religion are all pretty much a function of where we were born.

Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock.

I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

Both my parents work in film. They're crew. I love movies, and I just wanted to be involved. I got really lucky. I auditioned for a while and then started making films.

Growing up, I never heard my parents curse, never. The first time I ever said a curse word was with my sister Kim.