Quotes About Role Model Parents

#1. I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Charles Barkley

#2. I never thought I'd be a role model this early. It caught me off-guard, but it says a lot about how I was brought up, what my values have been, and how my parents raised me. It's very flattering that being myself is enough to be a role model.

Danica Patrick

#3. There is a condition or circumstance that has a greater bearing upon the happiness of life than any other. What is it? Something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all people and what a wretched world it would be.

John Burroughs

#4. Why do you think people don't think that homosexual parents are good? You don't know what a homosexual family looks like. I will be the role model for the good gay family. Don't let these children suffer without families because of your bias.

Rosie O'Donnell

#5. A woman doesn't just love a man. She loves who he is. And, who he is is dependent on what he needs.

James MacArthur

#6. Direct communication is the best way to go through life. But many people do not deal with others in that fashion. Instead, they practice avoidance (ignoring the person or the problem) or triangulation (bringing in a third person) or overlooking.

Henry Cloud

#7. I used read about Dr. King a lot as a kid. Independently, from being assigned it or being told by my parents or anything, I was just really excited about him. So I just started reading about him very young and was inspired by his legacy and looked to him as a role model.

John Legend

#8. I can buy and sell any of these people who are always criticizing me.

Pia Zadora

#9. Let's get something straight. I'm supposed to be the bad guy. I will always disappoint you. Your parents will hate me. You should not root for me. I am not your role model. I don't know why everyone seems to forget that. I never do.

Kami Garcia

#10. Half the night I was on my knees before those flowers, and I regarded them as the pledges of your love; but those impressions grew fainter, and were at length effaced.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#11. To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.

Zendaya

#12. I was that kid who was always practicing crying or falling asleep or being angry or being excited. I was that weirdo in my room making faces.

Rosa Salazar

#13. My mom is my role model. Charlie and I have two great sets of parents, but our moms are often the ones that go with us to competitions. My mom was with me in Sochi. I am so lucky to be a part of the Thank You Mom program partnered with Puffs and P&G.

Meryl Davis

#14. Those who cling to the shadows will always hate and despise the light.

Seth Adam Smith

#15. I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

Danica McKellar

#16. 'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.

Suzi Quatro

#17. I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

Selena

#18. I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

Yul Vazquez

#19. I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

Tatyana Ali

#20. I was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in a motorcade. It looked to me like a million police cars buzzing around the vehicle in which i, a woman in labor, was riding. And they all followed. Into Elmhurst Hospital and up to the delivery room. They surrounded the hospital.

Assata Shakur

#21. Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

Uma Thurman

#22. Well, we're not in the middle of nowhere, but we can see it from here.

Callie Khouri

#23. Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

Ciaran Hinds

#24. These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol. But it's the parents' job to make sure their kids don't turn out that shallow.

Britney Spears

#25. It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

Steven Wright