Parent Quotes

Teach your parents well.

— Sidney Crosby

Not even my parents know how I vote.

— Shepard Smith

“Children are angels.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

— Havelock Ellis

Sales is the parent of marketing.

— Eben Pagan

Choose your parents wisely.

— Bertrand Russell

Everything is ideal to its parent.

— Sophocles

My parents were my worst audience.

— Richard Lewis

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

— Sylvia Earle

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

— Dave Barry

There's no winning arguments with your parents

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet

— Big L

Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

— Pope Francis

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

— Anonymous

“Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.”

— Sophie Kinsella

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

— David Copperfield

I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months…

— Linda Evans

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being…

— Russell Crowe

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are…

— LeBron James

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was…

— Rob Mariano

My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you…

— Toni Trucks

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

— Edmund Burke

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

— Anthony Powell

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.

— Sophie Kinsella

Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others…

— Sandra Scarr

Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The…

— Mary Pipher

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's…

— Tony Visconti

I learned about sex pretty early when I was, I remember, my friend Amanda DeLauro explained it to me when I was…

— Lena Dunham

With grown children, we can look back at both our mistakes and what we did well in our parenting, having conversations with…

— Wendy Lustbader

In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children,…

— Edward Gibbon

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about…

— Barbara Coloroso

It's tough for a child to deal with expectations that people have if they have a successful parent. A child often fails…

— Soni Razdan

I feel a responsibility to myself and my parents and the people whose love has gotten me this far - people who…

— Lupita Nyong'o

“You can Lose a child Or a parent, The love of your life, A good job, A game, A deal, A bet,…

— Suzy Kassem

Let's not forget: This all began when you had eight- and nine-year-old children writing graffiti on walls. Their parents were told: "You…

— Adel al-Jubeir

I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the…

— Kristin Davis

“You are still a good mom if you -forget to click a selfie with your kid -set boundaries with your little monsters…

— Deeksha Arora

I'm from New York. I grew up there. I grew up in Westchester County, the suburbs. For me, that was always the…

— Guillermo E. Brown

I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this…

— Gerald R. Ford

I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know…

— David Foster Wallace