Parent Quotes · Page 2

The empty nest is underrated.

— Nora Ephron

Thought is the parent of the deed.

— Thomas Carlyle

I’m the only gay person my parents know,

— Lance Bass

“Blessed is the womb that born you.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Family is the foundation of life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Change is the parent of progress.

— Steve Maraboli

My parents created their own war.

— Sean Wilsey

My parents had a difficult divorce.

— Christian Camargo

Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

— Marco Pierre White

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

— Steven Spielberg

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

— Jonny Lang

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

— Brad Meltzer

My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.

— Pamela Anderson

My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.

— Gary Shteyngart

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

— John Medina

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the…

— Helen Suzman

Germany and Israel should dream together for a Middle East in which all the countries are willing to exchange the dispute of…

— Shimon Peres

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

— Bill Ayers

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

— Shefali Tsabary

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around…

— Paul Smith

There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just…

— Tamara Ecclestone

I don't aspire to have her career, or to be as talented as her, because I'd feel like I was shooting myself…

— Finty Williams

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact…

— Graham Greene

We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our parent at one…

— Dalai Lama

I don't have family members calling me and saying, "Is this rumor about you in the newspaper true?," because they know it's…

— Eve Hewson

I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And…

— Rich Mullins

We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their…

— Rafael Cruz

I got a naughty thrill out of listening to music that was that dirty, especially being that young and able to listen…

— Moshe Kasher

My parents are very successful, and I went to the nicest private school in the Seattle area. I was lucky. But I…

— Bill Gates

My mom is a Twilight fan as well and she's just as excited because she's read all the books so I think…

— Ashley Greene

You cannot show real respect to your parents by perpetuating their errors… Do you consider that the inventor of a steel plow…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit…

— Anne Fadiman

I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am…

— Sandra Bullock

My parents left Iran in 1979 and moved to France and then moved to the U.S. My brother was born in France…

— Rostam Batmanglij

I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would…

— Prince William

Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling…

— Barbara Madsen

Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the…

— Dorothy H Cohen