Parent Quotes - Page 71

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.

History is the third parent.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

My first priority is my children. If at any moment I put aside something that I want to do to be a better parent than that is more than okay for me.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

My parents’ biggest thing was that they just wanted me to graduate high school and go to college. They couldn’t fathom me acting for the rest of my life.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.

It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced.

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

Often parents communicate most effectively with their children by the way they listen to and address each other. Their conversations showing gentleness and love are heard by our ever-alert, impressionable children.