Parent Quotes · Page 18

“Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.”

— Sophie Kinsella

I think it teaches you humility and love being a parent.

— Ayesha Takia

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

— Robert Breault

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

— Chelsea Clinton

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

— Peter Shaffer

It's nice to have cool parents. They're cool with everything.

— Ilana Glazer

Listen to your father in your head when you don't know what to do as a parent.

— Jill Zarin

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

— James Worthy

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

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

— Lucy Corin

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

— Jennifer Garner

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

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

— Mata Amritanandamayi

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

— Arna Bontemps

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right.…

— Richard Pryor

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to…

— Natasha Trethewey

My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You…

— Jeff Ross

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and…

— Anonymous

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in…

— Jeanette Winterson

Absent parents aren't abusive per se. They're neglectful. They love in a very imperfect way. There are parents like that, and they…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college…

— Lamar Alexander

If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you…

— Jodi Picoult

I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes.…

— Emily Yoffe

After a while, you're growing up so quickly and you begin to not know your parents anymore. You're left with the memories…

— Diane Guerrero

I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do,…

— Paul Reiser

My parents never had any money. It was cash flow. It flows, and you got your fingers in it for a little…

— Dan Aykroyd

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization…

— Nikola Tesla

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the…

— Otsuichi

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from…

— Laura Riding

I was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 A.M. You get used to it. You get…

— Teddy Sears

Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.

— Philip Greenspun

“Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I'm jealous of my parents. I'll never have a kid as cool as theirs.

— Chris Gayle

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

— Heidi Klum

If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.

— Dick Cavett

My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything

— Sonya Sones

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

— Mona Simpson

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

— Daniel Tosh