Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marian Wright Edelman

Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why don't we do something?".

Martin Lewis Perl

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

Mark Hoppus

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent

R. Buckminster Fuller

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Television is the third parent.

Nhat Hanh

Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.

Mike Myers

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.

Jodi Picoult

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

Jodi Picoult

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.

Jodi Picoult

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Jodi Picoult

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Olivia Williams

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

Kenny G

That's my ideal day, time with my boys.

Margaret Thatcher

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

Margaret Cho

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

Patricia Richardson

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

Oscar Wilde

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Luke Rhinehart

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

Lorna Luft

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

Liza Minnelli

My family's been in show business since the 1700s. I traced them. I'm bred to this. Like a racehorse. A thoroughbred. Look at my parents, my God. But it was my curiosity that made me do this. Because you could also say: "Look at Frank Sinatra Jr." It's not like a natural thing that happens. You gotta work.

Liz Phair

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

Mark Twain

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ.

Nikki Haley

Don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business,

Nikki Haley

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

Nicole Krauss

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

Nicole Richie

I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.

Mark Twain

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Nicholas Stoller

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

John Green

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

John Green

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

John Green

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Patti Smith

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.