Nick Jonas Quotes

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes.

My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.

My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be.

It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.

My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.

I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

I love my dad so much. I don't have that cool thing where I have dad issues.

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.

Whether it be with your parents or your siblings, everyone is dealing with different kinds of things.

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

In any kid's relationship with their parents, there's always an influence there. You always want to do them proud.