Appreciate Your Parents Quotes

#1. Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

John Spence

#2. You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

Michele Bachmann

#3. Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

Thucydides

#4. Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

Kim Wilde

#5. I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.

Rachel Nichols

#6. I'd rather be over the hill than under it.

George Burns

#7. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Anonymous

#8. Every public elementary school ought to welcome Good News Clubs. Parents appreciate them; children love them; and the First Amendment protects them. The First Amendment requires that similar groups be provided with equal treatment. Religious speech is not a disability. It is our preeminent freedom.

Mathew Staver

#9. We are lucky if our parents are still alive when we get old enough to appreciate them.

Wendy Lustbader

#10. It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

Kristin Scott Thomas

#11. Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.

Nick Hornby

#12. It's important to appreciate the impact of
knowledge in our lives, and that of our parents
in getting us educated. However in today's
world, if someone have not been to school, that
means he must have been educated.

Victor Adeagbo

#13. Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Grant Hill

#14. Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

Jim Brosnan

#15. How is it that we carry the weight of the world on our shoulders, but we have to get it off our chest?

Non Nomen

#16. I had a very difficult childhood. I was surrounded by people who had both parents, which made me feel different. Having a bit of a rougher existence early on, it made me appreciate the work ethic that my grandparents instilled in me.

George Lopez

#17. My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

John Oliver

#18. I shall never come to the Punjab again; it is such a hopeless place.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#19. In many ways a child has actually re-educated the parents upon arrival into their lives - when else do adults take the time to appreciate acorns or clouds?

Ian-Anthony Finnimore

#20. My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

Kacey Musgraves

#21. You can't help but have your children and your family be part of what you dream about when you dream up a song.

Stone Gossard

#22. Oscar was raised to believe that if he stayed in his room reading about made up worlds it meant he didn't appreciate the life he had, the possessions his parents had worked hard for, like the TV and the video and the newly turfed back garden.

Benjamin Wood

#23. The beauty of the ultrasound scan is something that only parents can appreciate, but Emma had seen these things before and knew what was required of her. 'Beautiful,' she sighed, though in truth it could have been a Polaroid of the inside of his pocket.

David Nicholls

#24. My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

Ahmet Zappa

#25. Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of being parents. I think we're going to savor it and cherish it and we're going to be the best parents we can be.

Bill Rancic

#26. "Dream big, work hard." My parents brought up Kylie [Jenner] and me to be workaholics. That's something I really appreciate.

Kendall Jenner

#27. The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

Tad Williams

#28. Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

Richard Louv

#29. Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

Rajneesh

#30. Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Aberjhani

#31. If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth.

Stanley Greenspan

#32. Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

Aimee Bender