Parent Quotes · Page 119

Being a parent is such an awesome responsibility! A Blessing. But the unconditional love, fear, worry can be overwhelming at times.

— Anonymous

My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton…

— Clare Bowen

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can

— Scott Baio

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

— John Medina

What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

— Franz Grillparzer

Accepting your teen's individuality and natural evolution is one of the most difficult challenges you'll face as a parent.

— Wendy Mogel

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't…

— Hunter S. Thompson

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very…

— Shia LaBeouf

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but…

— Robert Greene

I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd…

— Charlie Huston

It’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us…

— Candace Bushnell

Of course when you are a kid you listen to what your parents had around. A lot of gospel, jazz. Now when…

— Jorma Kaukonen

“The relationship between parent and child is the foundation of love upon which everything is built, and the rules you set are…

— Andy Kerckhoff

Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do…

— Alice Waters

Virtually all families in the middle of the earnings distribution aspire to send their children to a school of at least average…

— Bob Frank

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

I knew it. You’re an alien,” said her former best friend, the pale, bespectacled creature with the spectacular cleavage. “Yes, I’m an…

— Libba Bray

Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it…

— Frank Pittman

I was raised by my mom. She taught me how to be a gentleman; nobody in the movies taught me. I think…

— Todd Phillips

Now when you transfer into the conscious parenting paradigm, you have to release those pressures and those fears... you actually think into…

— Shefali Tsabary

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images…

— Jim Butcher

I don't know if that's the best story for BoJack, long-term. I do love the world, and I love playing around in…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my…

— Chuck Berry

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

— Morgan Freeman

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around…

— Paul Smith

There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just…

— Tamara Ecclestone

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

— Anonymous

I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as…

— Soleil Moon Frye

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or…

— Molly Crabapple

I definitely had creative people around me, but my parents were more just very encouraging.

— Rose Byrne

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe…

— Betty Smith

Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of…

— Kyle MacLachlan

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the…

— Helen Suzman

Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of…

— Shimon Peres

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

— Bill Ayers

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

— Shefali Tsabary

As far as being a parent, my view is no one is perfect, and what is important is that your children know…

— Sonja Morgan

Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or…

— Wallace Stevens