Parent Quotes - Page 54

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

Far too many young people are living in their parents' basements, and I think it is important for people to have hope and a vision things can be different.

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents house as much as I can.

The part we create from can't be touched by anything our parents did, or society did. That part is unsullied, uncorrupted; soundproof, waterproof, and bulletproof. In fact, the more troubles we've got, the better and richer that part becomes.

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

I think I've wanted to be an actress since the day I was born. I even asked my parents for an agent for my seventh birthday!

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.