Parent Quotes · Page 131

I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with…

— Emma Donoghue

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in…

— Adrien Brody

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of…

— Loudon Wainwright III

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt…

— Anonymous

I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents…

— Ezra Miller

Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.

— Stuart Duncan

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

— Anonymous

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual…

— Paul Weyrich

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even…

— Jenny McCarthy

May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education…

— Joseph Lancaster

Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior,…

— Brigham Young

“Hanging out with Sam or any two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one new way after…

— Michael J. Fox

The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not…

— Margaret Mead

~Trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks…

— Brooke Shields

We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often…

— Veronica Chambers

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is…

— Karen Horney

These days with our economy changing so much, there's not as much TV being made and there's a lot more reality these…

— Tiffani Thiessen

I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and…

— Michael Yates

I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an…

— Stephen King

People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest…

— Jeff Goldblum

I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years,…

— Indra Nooyi

Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent…

— Bertrand Russell

You can know someone all your life, like your parents or family, but I’ll tell you this, Ned. There’s an expression on…

— Melina Marchetta

They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with…

— Karen Marie Moning

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in…

— Warwick Davis

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

— Keith Murray

The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or…

— Siddharth Katragadda

Being a teenage mum and a single parent hasn't been easy but I wouldn't change it for the world.

— Stacey Solomon

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

— Shaquille O'Neal

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember…

— Umberto Eco

Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that…

— Cameron Esposito

And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But…

— Ken Wilber

I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in…

— George W. Bush

When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all…

— Jeppe Hein

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a…

— Brian Blessed

Kollywood is my parent film industry. It was here that I was born as an actress and grew as an artist.

— Asin

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

— Edward Dyer

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think…

— Frank Shorter

My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

— Rodney Dangerfield