Parent Quotes - Page 151

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.

I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window.

When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

And sometimes when I would get in the morning, when we'd go out - we'd see shrapnel and bits of stuff in the streets and bombed buildings, and - but I was evacuated a lot. Every time the blitz got heavy, my parents would take us off to the country.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.