Parents quotes

51 quotes

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Lady Gaga

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

Lady Gaga

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

H. L. Mencken

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Madeleine Albright

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Dwayne Johnson

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

Bill Gates

Because of my parents‘ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

Madeleine Albright

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

Lady Gaga

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

Mr. T

My mami and papi love my music. They’re always listening to the radio waiting for one of my songs to come on. And when it does, they turn up the volume – and turn it back down when it’s over.

Bad Bunny

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

Richard P. Feynman

My parents weren’t actors or studio executives.

Dwayne Johnson

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

Kamala Harris

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

Bill Gates

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Russell M. Nelson

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Kendrick Lamar

I don’t believe in nepotism. I don’t much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Anthony Hopkins

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.

Russell M. Nelson

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

Russell M. Nelson

When I moved out, my mom and dad came to help me get settled into my apartment – a place I ultimately got hooked up with in Coach Nelson’s building. We had to figure out how to get all my shoes over here. That was a little stressful.

Stephen Curry

I’ve always been surrounded by many great people and professors, but my family, especially my mom who was a teacher, was the person who encouraged me to study and pushed me to continue. When we’re young, we don’t understand why our parents bug us so much with school and doing homework, but it’s a blessing to have that support at home.

Bad Bunny

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

Joe Biden

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Russell M. Nelson

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

Kevin Gates

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

J. Cole

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Madeleine Albright

You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

Robert Frost

When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.

Bill Gates

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Madeleine Albright

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

David Bowie

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

J. K. Rowling

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

James Madison

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

Jerry Seinfeld

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Kobe Bryant

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Russell M. Nelson

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

Russell M. Nelson

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Woody Allen

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Kurt Vonnegut

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

Alice Walker

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

J. K. Rowling

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Alice Walker

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

Alice Walker

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

Steve Jobs

We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.

Walt Disney

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Vivienne Westwood

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

Adam Sandler

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families – second families, perhaps I should say.

Abraham Lincoln