Parent Quotes · Page 137

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

— Alison Bechdel

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still…

— Gene Tierney

For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll…

— Emma Donoghue

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

— Josh Billings

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

— Howard Schultz

Just because a child is one year old and you've been a parent of a one-year-old before doesn't mean that what worked…

— Eva Marcille

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been…

— George Will

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

— Benigno Aquino III

Divorce is war and unfortunately, some parents live in constant entanglements with their ex-spouses and they shift aside the issues that post-divorce…

— Diane Greene

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot…

— A. A. Gill

Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked…

— Cam Newton

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the…

— Isabel Paterson

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in…

— John Lennon

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The…

— Walter Scott

I thought at the time of my parents' divorce that I was upset by deeper, more profound things and I was just…

— Noah Baumbach

I've learned to become a progressive man because I have four women in my life. And their mother, who I'm not married…

— Giancarlo Esposito

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I could do anything—be anything. I could be a blackberry farmer. I could worry about phone bills and nipping out to the…

— Joe Ducie

As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are…

— Thomas S. Monson

Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like…

— Mary Blakely

The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with…

— Dan Byrd

The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect…

— Joan Mondale

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their…

— Hillary Clinton

I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union…

— Joely Fisher

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

— Angelina Jolie

If his/her siblings and parents are not treated and he/she is strong enough to continue the recovery, a sibling will take up…

— Virgil Miller Newton

My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I've never seen this level of anger at parents who've chosen not to vaccinate their children.

— Paul A. Offit

I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

— Allison Silverman

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty,…

— Lucy Corin

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that…

— Robert Breault

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.

— Anonymous

As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought…

— Paul Reiser

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of…

— Jennifer Garner

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I couldn't imagine losing a parent. My heart goes out to everyone who has lost a parent, I admire you. I don't…

— Anonymous

Children do not need superhuman, perfect parents. They have always managed with good enough parents: the parents they happened to have.

— Penelope Leach

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

— Gore Verbinski