The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas HardyIf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (Opening line, The Catcher in the Rye)
J D SalingerHi, we are Sum 41 and we're just something your parents will never understand
Deryck WhibleyI always have been proud of being a Swiss, but I don't know very much about His [Switzerlands's] glory story, as my parents left to France in the year 1886 when I was seven an half years old.
Louis ChevroletThe problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLintAduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma BombeckThe parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare
Henry Jackson Van DykeWe will provide a right for parents to request to work flexible hours when their child is young.
Stephen ByersI've told them they have to support England and if they don't, they won't be getting a ticket. [on his parents watching England]
Sajid MahmoodA self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents!
Al GoldsteinNot being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.
Chris EubankI think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people
Joely FisherAll that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
Catherine Zeta JonesThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIIIPeople who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon AppelfeldFrom birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash
Sophie TuckerMy parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.
Fernando AlonsoWhy do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
Claudette ColbertA Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip RothIt's the sort of thing parents might chant encouragingly to a child slow on the potty-training [on Obama's campaign slogan of 'Yes we can']
Christopher HitchensParents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane HowardI don't think my parents know what I do.
John MalkovichBeing an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.
Dianne AbbottParents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden NashMy parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7
David BeckhamI find it easy to understand why the likes of Sarah-Louise end up going astray. Everybody hits that stage where the more your parents try to keep you close, the more you want to break free. But I was nowhere near as bad as Sarah-Louise is, although my mum might disagree.
Tina O'BrienThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow'I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.'
Shirley MansonI'm probably going to be one of those very embarrassing parents who's a naturist.
Robbie WilliamsWrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris DayMy parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
Queen MaryBefore high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
Tatyana AliI owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
Greg NormanFor the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Earl WilsonOliver Letwin has insulted the parents, teachers and pupils of every state school in the country.
Stephen TwiggParents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill CosbyIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouRather than just a binary choice between grammar schools for some and secondary modern for others, it is far better to have wider diversity in schools and greater choice for parents
David DavisI phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'we saw your movie'. 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?'
Brad PittParents and teachers are not up in arms about minors buying lads mags simply because they do not
Piers HernuI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur RimbaudThe Prince of Wales lives in a world where everybody says Yes, and the only people who can tell him things he doesn't want to hear are his parents.
Paul BurrellMaybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim CarreyIf I had to choose between wealth and a united family, I would 1,000 per cent have preferred my parents to stay together.
Minnie DriverWhat is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin SpockParents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John LockeLittle League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi BerraWhen I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Rodney DangerfieldI think that when people hear that my middle name is Moon they start to wonder a thing or two about my parents!
Soleil FryeIt certainly seems contradictory of the [local] council to be encouraging parents to stop using their cars to take children to school but at the same time taking so long about the safe routes initiative.
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