Parent Quotes · Page 21

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

— Glen Duncan

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

— Baron Wolfenden John Wolfenden

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

— Annette Funicello

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

— Dennis Miller

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

— Sarah Silverman

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

— Thomas Yalden

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

— David Cook

My parents always felt if I worked hard enough I could make any dream come true.

— Derek Jeter

If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure…

— Richard Dawkins

Being a parent is one of the most rewarding/exhausting jobs that you could ever have.

— Anonymous

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing…

— Graham Kendall

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

— Creed Bratton

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

— William Godwin

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

— Iman Abdulmajid

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to…

— Mikhail Bakunin

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I…

— Prince William

Conditional love is love that is turned off and on…Some parents only show their love after a child has done something that…

— Louise Hart

Forcing your spouse to stop doing that bad habit that drives you crazy, or making your kid be better at math or…

— Ian Bogost

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that…

— Michael Morpurgo

I started teaching in '76 and I'd been a photographer at the Geographic for six years. But prior to being at the…

— Sam Abell

Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're…

— Jenny McCarthy

I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when…

— W. Kamau Bell

Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a…

— Sandra Scarr

When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very…

— Christopher Walken

This frenzy about cyberporn indicates some deeper fear of adults as they see kids become more independent and learn things they never…

— Seymour Papert

Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has…

— Will Sheff

It can be difficult going through a period of time where you feel depressed because it can become your identifier. In the…

— Halsey

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having…

— L. Tom Perry

I have always tried to keep an honest, age-appropriate line of communication open with my daughter,India, even during the teen years, a…

— Eric Benet

People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning…

— Quentin Crisp

I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because…

— Leroy Chiao

I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was…

— Tom Hayden

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

— Victor Hugo

“Your children have enough friends...they need a parent!”

— Robert Gioia

I feel like I'm that typical new parent that's nervous about everything.

— Lacey Chabert

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

— Mignon McLaughlin

For any parent, all they want is for their child to be safe and cared for.

— Ncuti Gatwa

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

— Mark Twain

I'm pretty relaxed as a parent, and I think that people might be surprised by that.

— Whitney Port

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

— Loretta Chase