Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers.
SocratesMy parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7
David BeckhamI think that when people hear that my middle name is Moon they start to wonder a thing or two about my parents!
Soleil FryeI'm probably going to be one of those very embarrassing parents who's a naturist.
Robbie WilliamsMy 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 AlonsoI 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 PittThe best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
Natalie PortmanOne 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 WoodsI didn't understand why he wasn't returning my calls [when her parents split]
Nicole RichieThe parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare
Henry Jackson Van DykeMost of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlinThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIIIParents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill CosbyFrom 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 TuckerFor the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Earl WilsonIt'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 HitchensMy 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 LinneyWrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris DayMy parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
Kelly RipaI wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania TwainA Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip RothWhy do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
Claudette ColbertThe 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 HardyA self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents!
Al GoldsteinThe 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 BurrellGreat families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who (The True-Born Englishman)
Daniel DefoeLittle League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi BerraI owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
Greg NormanLike all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
Michelle PfeifferWhat 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 SpockIt 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 WhittakerLabour have already given parents the power to draw up plans for their own schools
Jim KnightI 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'BrienI 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 ChevroletRather 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 DavisHi, we are Sum 41 and we're just something your parents will never understand
Deryck Whibley'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 MansonA child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy GrahamThe 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 HarrisBeing an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.
Dianne AbbottPsychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence PeterAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore VidalParents, 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 HowardWe are very much just parents together, although we have moments of being sexy and fun and I do find him [Pitt] sexy.
Angelina JolieAduation 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 BombeckI 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 FisherSaving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Winston ChurchillParents 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'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 MahmoodFortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be proud and carry myself with dignity.
Susan Anton
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