Parent Quotes - Page 157

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

I remember being taught to read at a very early age. Like creepy young. I remember being in the crib, reading. My parents were very impressed. My reading speed, comprehension and overall ability has remained at that level ever since.

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They're heavy to lift up when they're throwing tantrums.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.

You never put her in your heart.

Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.

When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, "So when did you start and why? What about your parents?" I say to them, "Please, have you heard of the word Google?"

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.

If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for a way to keep them alive, remembering them in the most minimal details, I have been changing them, adorning them with qualities they may not have had. I have given them a destiny much more complex than the ones they lived.

Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.

I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.

Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.