Tell Your Parents Quotes

#1. Don't tell your parents you're gay and I'm not your girlfriend. Tell them you're gay because someone is your boyfriend."
"Can I tell them it's that hot guy on Teen Wolf?

Avon Gale

#2. 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

#3. It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

Judy Carter

#4. Your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty and because it's noisy, but for you it's fun and you're doing experiments ... Just tell your parents that they're experiments and you want to become a scientist, and they won't stop you from doing anything you want.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or
in my case
remember to say good-bye to them at all.

Lauren Oliver

#6. The number one thing in my opinion parents can do is be the way you would like your child to be. Don't tell them one thing and do something different. Be congruent with what you would like them to be by showing them how to be that way.

John Assaraf

#7. You never know what your parents are going to say when you tell them you're getting married - especially when it's with someone they haven't met yet.

Chad Kroeger

#8. If your parents are still alive, call them today and ask them to describe the day you were born. Write the details down here, on the following pages. Tell the story every year on your birthday until you know it by heart.

Amy Poehler

#9. Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.

Russell Simmons

#10. I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.

Joan Lingard

#11. Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries."
I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the
Lord's work and all.

James Patterson

#12. The prospect of calling Zane's parents to tell them he was seriously injured, and oh, by the way, I'm your son's partner who let him go by himself into the building that blew up, nice to meet you, has he told you he likes cock?

Abigail Roux

#13. I've noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.

Dave Barry

#14. We all want good friends - kind, respected, nice. The kind of people you want to introduce to your parents, other friends, pastor. But never underestimate the value of immoral friends - the ones that create the most precious memories you never will tell anyone else!

Jury Nel

#15. People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.

Carrie-Anne Moss

#16. Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose your parents carefully.

Sebastian Coe

#17. Didn't anyone ask you where your parents are?"
"They asked. Especially about my parents."
"What did you tell them?"
"I said I ate them."
"Jesus, Rosa.

Justine Larbalestier

#18. Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

Stephen Daldry

#19. Parents who always whisper the word "sex" unintentionally tell their kids, "I don't want to talk about this. Get your answers elsewhere.

Michael Rittenhouse

#20. One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

Amy Dickinson

#21. Vince doesn't see this side of you, sir. He sees a father who works at a bank and makes money but I tell him, I say, your parents have other sides you do not see because you are their child. It is only now that I am old that I look at some things that my father did and I understand.

Imbolo Mbue

#22. Your friends' parents drive like assholes. Tell them it's an elementary school parking lot, not downtown fucking Manhattan.

Justin Halpern

#23. When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'

Thomas Friedman

#24. Your parents don't get to tell your story. Your sisters don't. When he's old enough, even Pat doesn't get to tell your story. I'm your husband and I don't even get to tell it. So I don't care how lovesick this director is, he doesn't tell it. ... No one gets to tell you what your life means!" ~Alvis

Jess Walter

#25. And thinking never did anybody any good, no matter what your teachers and parents and the science-club freaks tell you.

Lauren Oliver

#26. I'd have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can't ask your parents such questions. You have to wait for them to tell you what it is that will happen next ...

Beth Kephart

#27. Keep your options open, his parents told him, but they didn't tell him that growing older is about your options shutting down, one by one.

Lauren Beukes

#28. He was covered with a healthy pelt that had some men drooling and wanting him to be their leather daddy. He just shook his head at them. He didn't do that sort of shit. If you wanted someone to boss you around and tell you what to do, then go visit your parents." - Lon Taylor

Renae Kaye

#29. It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and easy way of existing; but that is not living ... To live is to find out for yourself what is true ...

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#30. So, tell me, Ford - is that a family name? Or did your parents just like trucks?

J.A. Huss

#31. My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.

Bruce Molsky