Parent Quotes · Page 22

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

— Sherman Alexie

Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid?

— Roddy Piper

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

— Lindsay Lohan

“Parents must teach their children the fear of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

— Amy Chua

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

— Walt Disney

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

— Elinor Glyn

“There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent!”

— Rossana Condoleo

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

— Virginia Satir

As a parent, you just want to really make sure your kids understand what you are trying to say as much as…

— Mike Daniels

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we…

— Robert Breault

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

— Billy Corgan

To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.

— Mark Victor Hansen

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

— Robert Breault

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

— Ellen DeGeneres

The funny thing is a lot of people assume that my parents are the ones pushing me to make music. The truth…

— Cheyenne Kimball

I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from…

— Jason Katims

Finally Doug broke the stalemate and looked at Megan. "Thanks a lot," he said sarcastically. Then he yanked off his plastic gloves,…

— Kate Brian

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as…

— Fred Rogers

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so…

— Nelson Mandela

The parents always insisted on telling their child that their secret friends didn't exist - perhaps because they had forgotten that they…

— Paulo Coelho

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids…

— Jody Watley

Because my parents took a risk on me not knowing a thing about me.They believed that in everyone there is potential -…

— Michael Gove

We, as parents, must understand the serious responsibility that we have in inculcating love for God in the hearts of children. If…

— Radhanath Swami

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me…

— Bertrand Russell

Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world.…

— Fernando Vallejo

I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my…

— Condoleezza Rice

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of…

— Warren Farrell

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing…

— Margaret Atwood

[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects…

— Aisha Hinds

The question is grateful to who? You would think grateful to Allah, but Allah didn’t mention Himself. So it could be grateful…

— Nouman Ali Khan

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

— Amy Schumer

My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

— George Michael

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

— Julian Casablancas

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

— Tom Hooper

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

— Sara Paxton

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

— Mark Batterson

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

— Sean Covey

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

— Robert Breault