Quotes of: Parental Keyword

I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.

Camila Alves

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

Cesar Chavez

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Georgia Holt

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?

Georgia Jagger

It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

Guy Lafleur

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Hosea Ballou

My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful.

Hugh Hefner

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary.

Jenny Mollen

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

John Major

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

John Oates

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.

Joyce Carol Oates

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

James Patterson

If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the opposite sex, their kids won't learn it anywhere else.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so inconsistent.

Drew Barrymore

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

Don Kardong

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

Diane Lane

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

Danny McBride

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

Dominique Moceanu

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

Jennifer Damiano

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

Jenna Elfman

My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.

Jeff Garlin