Parental Preference Quotes

Given my own experience, I would still prefer it if my son were not gay. I would love him and accept him unconditionally, of course. But I know that even in this day and age, life is still harder for gay people.

I made some flippant remark about not wanting my son to grow up with an American accent, and the next thing I knew, there were people in America suggesting I head back to Britain if I was unhappy at such a prospect.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

I've got two daughters, and it's impossible for me to say one of them is a favorite.

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.

Parents who don't like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change our model is like a person walking into a pizzeria and demanding sushi. If you want sushi, go to a sushi restaurant!

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

I was closest to my dad and he always knew that I am responsible and would look after my family. For him, I was always the boy child and not his girl.

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.

My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

The Federal Government does not have a huge role in education and most parents like it that way.

There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.

When a parent has two children, it is difficult to pick one favourite.

Mitch, Mitchell - I don't care, but my mom prefers Mitchell. I'll answer to either one.

When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.

So it - we have one enduring, uh, idea that will always live on with the Smothers Brothers, that 'Mom always liked you best.' We're the universal, uh, feeling that every child, every sibling has had somewhere along the line. Or, 'Who did she like best?' And that became kind of a little mantra.

I would hope my children do not like NYCFC.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.