Quotes about Parents, page 2

I was a kid during the Second World War and even before that my parents had one of the first radio sets, and there was Radio London.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about parents

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Quote by William Godwin about parents

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on...

Quote by Peter Fonda about parents

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

Quote by Owen Hart about parents

But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house.

Quote by Eva Herzigova about parents

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about parents

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about parents

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about parents

When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about parents

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.

Quote by Michael Jackson about parents

My parents moved from Europe, first to Cuba for three years and then to America, where my dad joined the Army.

Quote by Billy Joel about parents

And that wasn't a problem coming out of the closet at all. My parents accepted it. I had, you know, I was very lucky in that respect.

Quote by Elton John about parents

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Quote by Angelina Jolie about parents

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you won't either.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about parents

The worst chew-out from parents always comes from an incident their child lied about.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about parents

When a conductor gives students letters for parents, 15% will be left on music stands, 25% will be inside the music, 15% will rot in instrument cases, 15% will be left in lockers, 15% will crawl under the student's bed, and 15% of the parents will...

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about parents

After a concert, parents rave about the pop selection played and say nothing about the test piece.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about parents

Your parents' advice only makes sense 20 years after they gave it to you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about parents

The relationships that people have that are sexual, psychological, emotional these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.

Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair about parents

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

Quote by Ashley Olsen about parents