Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
Barbara Coloroso

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.
Havelock Ellis

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.
Paul Prudhomme

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
Samuel Richardson

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
Dick Bruna

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
Samuel Richardson

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.
Andy Partridge

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live.
Ryan Phillippe

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.
Helen Reddy

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
Judy Davis

Both of my parents were musicians.
Bryan White

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
Leon Kass

Being 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 Flagg

It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.
Guy Lafleur

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.
Leon Kass

I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.
Erika Slezak

My parents really encouraged me.
Randy Castillo

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?
Boris Becker

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
Paul Nurse

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
Paul Nurse