Parent Quotes - Page 98

When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.

I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.

I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere which illuminates, magnifies, and at the same time refines the object to a degree that amounts to a delusion.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.

Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.