Parent Quotes · Page 145

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

— Britt Ekland

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

— Chris Hughes

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

— Dr. Seuss

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were…

— Jon Bon Jovi

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And…

— Billy Eichner

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

— Jerry Rubin

Ever had a parent who embarrassed u??? Of course you did, this is what happens when a parent hurts me.

— Haley Nichole

Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent.…

— Pete Docter

I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their…

— Samuel Alito

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked…

— Susie Orbach

I think as an over-protective parent of my songs: I always feel like none of them get enough attention. There are the…

— Sam Roberts

If I were to ask any parent, 'Do you love your kid?' the answer would unequivocally be, 'Yes.' If I went on…

— Suzy Shuster

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his…

— Vicki Baum

I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young…

— Hope Powell

Living in a place like Pakistan, very often you meet people who are migrating abroad. And sometimes you'll ask their parents, you…

— Mohsin Hamid

Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd,…

— Alice Walker

It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple…

— Spencer W. Kimball

At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and…

— Jerome Kagan

I think because we're ourselves, we tend to think we're unique. 'I have problems that are just specific to me.' Then you…

— Chris Hardwick

Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means…

— Jacque Fresco

Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man,…

— Heber J. Grant

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like…

— Joan Rivers

Kids really need love from two parents. It doesn't matter if it's a mom and a mom, or a dad and a…

— Brendon Ayanbadejo

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

— Horace

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at…

— Albert Einstein

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we…

— Janet Jackson

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.

— Sally Pearson

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

— Smiley Blanton

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

— Rita Mae Brown

“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around…

— Kiera Cass

I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if…

— George W. Bush

No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

— Brad Pitt

The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn,…

— Stephenie Meyer

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

— Brian Tracy

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

— Roberto Benigni