Famous Quotes & Sayings

January Jones

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

But for parenting teens you need a whole new set of tools.

Christopher Darden

My grandparents and parents urged me to go to school and do well in school so that at the end of the day I'd have options, choices.

I have 11,000 volunteers working for me, and I still can't keep up. I don't know how parents would.

I feel real strong that violence should be in (the statute). We need to give parents a tool to protect their children.

Ben Folds

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

Candis Cayne

My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldnt do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.

Cam Newton

My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.

Celine Buckens

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

Catherine O'Hara

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Channing Tatum

My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.

Channing Tatum

I've got great genetics from parents, and I'm not moaning that I have such a hard life. Trust me; it's worked out so much more in the positive then the negative.

Barbara Bush

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Arto Lindsay

My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.

Edmund Burke

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Dwyane Wade

I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

Faith Ford

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane.

Anne Lamott

Expectations are resentments under construction.

Ann Voskamp

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

Albert J. Nock

As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.

Alexander Gould

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

Clemence Poesy

I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

Claire Danes

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

D. H. Lawrence

The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

Dan Chaon

I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.

David Foster Wallace

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.

Craig T. Nelson

I lost my parents when I was fairly young.

Corbin Bernsen

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

Daniel Bruhl

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

Damian Lewis

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

Cory Monteith

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

Dustin Hoffman

I want to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.