Parent Quotes · Page 17

Being a parent is a full time job + overtime!

— Anonymous

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

— Meg Wolitzer

I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

— Dustin Hoffman

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

— David Copperfield

I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.

— Joey Comeau

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

— Evan Esar

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

— Polixeni Papapetrou

I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

— Bill Cosby

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

— Anne Lamott

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the…

— Craig Ferguson

There's nothing scarier than just having a moment where you looked away and lost your child.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

— Philip Roth

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

— Allison Silverman

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

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

— Robert Breault

People talk about universal intelligence ... I'm reticent to believe almost anything, just because my parents weren't religious at all, but that's…

— Judd Apatow

The benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are…

— Kathleen Silber

I sometimes find that my family's emphasis on stories, characters, and art that appeals directly to children rather than over their heads…

— Mike Berenstain

My family was reasonably liberal. Some kids I grew up with, their parents forced them to join the military, and my parents…

— Mike Doughty

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central…

— Jean Reno

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got…

— Octavia Spencer

My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a…

— Caterina Murino

I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically…

— Florence King

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and…

— Anna Quindlen

You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of…

— Valmiki

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the…

— George Carlin

“The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion.…

— Elbert Guillory

Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring…

— Richard Ebeling

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for…

— Sugata Mitra

I was raised with a mother who told me that I wouldn't succeed, that I wasn't good enough. Even at the pinnacle…

— Sarah McLachlan

My brother is gay and my parents don't care, as long as he marries a doctor.

— Elayne Boosler

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

— Ivan Lendl

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

— Sylvia Earle

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

— Dave Barry

There's no winning arguments with your parents

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet

— Big L

Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

— Pope Francis

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

— Anonymous