Parent Quotes · Page 103

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

— Maya Rudolph

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents…

— Micky Dolenz

Being a parent is saying 'I love you so much, I'm willing to step on LEGOS barefoot every day for about 10…

— Anonymous

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

— Lori Lightfoot

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

— Adam Jacobs

Clary- "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.

— Cassandra Clare

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach…

— Umberto Eco

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown…

— John Waters

When you grow up in a family where you have lost a parent, everybody joins together to instil the correct values in…

— John Torode

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the…

— Josef Albers

I come from a part of New York that was almost entirely immigrants. I was born in America, but all of my…

— Christopher Walken

When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in…

— Stephen Marche

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like…

— Robert Jeffress

Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was…

— Jesse McCartney

Most definitely always been a passion, and always been one of my goals in life as a young person, to have my…

— Venus Williams

I study once in a while. But my parents never pushed us into anything. Until we were 18, my mother would make…

— Janet Jackson

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set…

— Sydney J. Harris

like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Watoto hupenda vitu vinavyong’aa ambavyo havijatulia na vilivyopangiliwa vizuri. Hivyo ndivyo macho ya binadamu yalivyo: yana unyevu na yanaakisi mwanga, hayajatulia, na…

— Enock Maregesi

Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our…

— M. Russell Ballard

My first car was kind of sad. My first car was when my parents had completely worn out their Toyota Corolla that…

— Ethan Hawke

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.…

— Warsan Shire

My parents' deportation gave me so much strength to keep on moving forward, because any type of failure - whether in school…

— Diane Guerrero

I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a…

— Raj Chetty

I change my techniques according to what the child or the parent needs, or the family as a whole needs, but as…

— Jo Frost

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can…

— Miles Franklin

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they…

— Susan Cain

I believe that Reverend [Florine] Thompson's hit on something. My parents, I and a lot of my friends growing up in that…

— Condoleezza Rice

My parents put everything in a trust fund for me. I won't get it until I'm 18, so I'll use it for college.

— Heather O'Rourke

When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

— Ming-Na Wen

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let…

— Craig Ferguson

It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.

— Tig Notaro

I don't think anyone imagines themselves being a single parent. But I don't have a choice.

— Laila Rouass

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do…

— Sara Paretsky

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

— Bob Corker

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our…

— Benjamin Clementine

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear…

— E. Stanley Jones

I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and…

— Karen Hughes

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican.

— John Leguizamo

My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.

— Mila Kunis