Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George Santayana

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
Jackie Chan

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
Hillary Clinton

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
Emile M. Cioran

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
Steven Morrissey

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.
Billy Connolly

I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
Rita Rudner

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
James Dean

Even if you do something that others might consider wrong, you should at least be willing to talk about it and tell your parents what you're doing because you believe it's right.
Steve Wozniak

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

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.
Marlo Thomas

I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.
Victor Borge

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.
George Whitefield

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

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace

Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.
John Hume

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
Ted Nugent

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
Alan Bennett