"God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body."

"My parents always supported me, but I was put to task. My father thought when I sang, I was sharp; my mother was upset when I wasn't in the first line at recitals."

"A son has no greater duty, no higher good, than serving his parents."

"One 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."

"My mom was a single parent."

"Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents."

"I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now."

"Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters."

"When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football."

"My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles."

"If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents."

"So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me."

"I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control."

"It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing."

"I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes."

"My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals."

"My approach to parenting is that everything is open - everything. I'm not very good at covert, or subtle, and I've had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit."

"My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature."

"Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs."

"My parents taught me about the importance of qualities like kindness, respect, and honesty, and I realize how central values like these have been to me throughout my life."

"It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future."

"No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever."

"I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to."

"We need to help young people and their parents understand that it's not a sign of weakness to ask for help."