Parental Gift Quotes

I would love to get my parents a house somewhere or a place in the country.

When I was a teenager, my mom got me a really nice baritone ukulele.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they grow up into ungrateful adults. Instead, what you're going to get from me, as each of you turns sixteen, is a library of the one hundred books that gave me the most pleasure when I was a know-nothing adolescent.

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

I've never been able to keep track of an umbrella, but then my dad gave me this fancy umbrella. It was in his car, and I had again lost some awful Duane Reade disaster umbrella. It was my first adult umbrella that wasn't from a drugstore, and I have left it all over New York, and every time, I went back to get it.

My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.

I bought my mum a new house when the money started to come in; it's that old cliche.

My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

My dad has given me the best gift anyone has ever given me. He gave me wings to fly.

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.