Parent Quotes · Page 20

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

— Ben Jonson

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

— Ivan Turgenev

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.

— Ryan Gosling

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

— Abraham Lincoln

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

— Sydney J. Harris

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

— Roger L'Estrange

When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

— Mason Cooley

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

— Dwyane Wade

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are…

— Jeffrey Kluger

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my…

— Toots Thielemans

I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love…

— Anne Lamott

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

— Davy Rothbart

Sometimes, being a parent means being a loving caregiver. Other times: angry butler.

— Anonymous

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

— Mayer Hawthorne

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went…

— Brandi Chastain

Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming…

— Dave Hunt

The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I…

— Kim Gordon

For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience…

— Nathaniel Branden

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the…

— Ernest Istook

What kind of religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it…

— Michelle Shocked

As many conventionally unhappy parents did in the 1950s, my parents stayed together for the sake of the children—they divorced after my…

— Bruce H. Lipton

Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes…

— Shari Arison

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should…

— David O. McKay

And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents' and his grandparents' generation have got…

— Lincoln Steffens

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas…

— Camille Paglia

I'm most proud of my kids, for one, and my family and my parents. Outside of that - what am I proud…

— Frank Oz

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the…

— Louis Adamic

We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why…

— Bruce Feiler

A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some…

— Lisa Unger

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents, so Wild at Heart was a wish come true. The…

— Laura Dern

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is…

— Jandy Nelson

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

— Faye Wattleton

“One of the worst things about burying a child is the stress of wondering.”

— Leslie A. Gordon

It takes a long time to appreciate one's parents.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Losing a parent is tough and its something I hate to see others go through.

— Anonymous

The love of a parent is as much nutrition as a chocolate bar.

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

— Diane Lane

Most parents don’t know really their children.

— Otto Frank

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

— Tryon Edwards