You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. Truman

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
Vance Havner

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
Jim Carrey

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
Kurt Vonnegut

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
Josef Albers

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken

Parents 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 Fuller

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher

Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.
Tim Allen

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
Rick Warren

Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?
Paula Abdul

We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law.
Jerry Seinfeld

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs from their parents' apartment. I had to go that far to put together a scenario of how they could have possibly recognized me.
Marc Jacobs