Parent Quotes · Page 124

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

— J. C. Ryle

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

— Albert Einstein

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose…

— Harold S. Kushner

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

— Mignon McLaughlin

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped…

— Charlaine Harris

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want,…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

— Bill Vaughan

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

— Jack Kirby

You don't sleep anymore, but at the same time, you have this strength that comes from this life that has just arrived.…

— Marion Cotillard

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar...…

— Bill Cosby

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home…

— Sonia Sotomayor

I think my parents were worried when I said I wanted to be an actress, but they also understood what that feeling…

— Ruby Bentall

My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then…

— Neil Gaiman

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home,…

— Erin Gray

“As a parent? My fear is that when we die, we'll have to watch all those moments in our lives when we…

— Will Ferguson

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate.…

— Susan Forward

Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a…

— Mia Wasikowska

Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative…

— Sandra Scarr

My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates"…

— Dan Millman

I went to a Christian School, and when I reached a certain age, I wasn't allowed to wear pants to school anymore.…

— Karin Slaughter

My promise to my children: for as long as I live, I will always be your parent first, and your friend second.…

— Anonymous

A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created…

— Josiah Johnson Hawes

I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a…

— Mindy Kaling

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

— John Green

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

— Diane Keaton

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

— Camryn Manheim

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,

— Woody Allen

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents…

— Lily Rabe

I give this advice to every parent I meet, and it's something I have believed ever since I was young - never…

— Shatrughan Sinha

I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set

— Ranbir Kapoor

When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let…

— Jeff Foxworthy

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening…

— Perry Brass

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and…

— Selena

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get…

— Vince Carter

I don't want to rip families apart. I don't want to be sending parents away from children.

— Hillary Clinton

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what…

— George Clinton

When I speak to kids I tell them, 'Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're…

— Charles Barkley