Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.
John MortimerPeople who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon AppelfeldSaving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Winston ChurchillThe best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
Natalie PortmanI don't think my parents know what I do.
John MalkovichBeing an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie FlaggI 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'BrienA Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip RothAduation 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 BombeckLabour have already given parents the power to draw up plans for their own schools
Jim KnightRather 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'm probably going to be one of those very embarrassing parents who's a naturist.
Robbie WilliamsIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouMy heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael JordanOliver Letwin has insulted the parents, teachers and pupils of every state school in the country.
Stephen TwiggMost of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin'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 MansonBrevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea BallouAll that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
Catherine Zeta JonesThe problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLintWe are very much just parents together, although we have moments of being sexy and fun and I do find him [Pitt] sexy.
Angelina JolieA self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents!
Al GoldsteinOne of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
Tiger WoodsParents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden NashParents and teachers are not up in arms about minors buying lads mags simply because they do not
Piers HernuParents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John LockeIt 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.
Sally WhittakerThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIIIMy parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
Queen MaryParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R Buckminster FullerI didn't understand why he wasn't returning my calls [when her parents split]
Nicole RichieSome children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
Roald DahlKids today are much more independent than their parents were. We're really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago. Or, at least, we are involved in sex earlier
Phoebe CatesWhat 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 SpockThe beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney HarrisParents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter UstinovIf I had to choose between wealth and a united family, I would 1,000 per cent have preferred my parents to stay together.
Minnie DriverMy name is Brian Green by birth. Austin was made up by my parents when I was nine, because there was another Brian Green in the Screen Actors Guild.
Brian Austin GreenI owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
Greg NormanNot being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.
Chris EubankMy parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7
David BeckhamIf 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 SalingerFrom 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 TuckerLittle League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi BerraMy parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.
Laura LinneyI 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 FisherHi, we are Sum 41 and we're just something your parents will never understand
Deryck WhibleyThe 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 BurrellThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric HofferFor the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Earl Wilson
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