Parent Quotes - Page 93

The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is more likely to regard it as a virtual parent, concerned only with protecting and helping him

I resisted parenthood for a long, long time. But having a daughter has given me a sense of hopefulness that I didn't have before.

I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.

Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

I always wanted to be acting but...my parents (who are Cambodian) wanted me to be something else with more stability, like a doctor or lawyer. My heart wasn't in that and I'm really glad I followed my heart.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

My parents could not be more Italian.

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.

I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor. To me, it was a foreign concept. I was like, Someone is pretending to do that? Thats so awesome! After that, it just stayed in the back of my mind.