Parent Quotes · Page 23

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

— Daryl Gregory

The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.

— Molly Shannon

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

— Wes Fesler

We are the people are parents warned us against.

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

— Robert Hunter

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

— Sheila Heti

Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

— Sarah Bird

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

— Paulo Costanzo

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

— Chetan Bhagat

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me…

— Joan Jett

Ivanka Trump is for climate change. Ivanka is all for single-parent families, and so she's as close to liberal as you're gonna…

— Rush Limbaugh

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

— Amy Chua

While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.

— Wes Fesler

My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a…

— Sam Rockwell

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what…

— Andrew Solomon

In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their…

— Parminder Nagra

The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great…

— Kate Bornstein

Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect…

— James Fenimore Cooper

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that…

— Mark Foley

Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status…

— Claire Danes

I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to…

— Michelle Obama

I've got my wife. I've got my four kids. I've got parents, grandparents still, and three really good friends. It's all you…

— David Beckham

People make their life really hard. It was as simple as this: My parents went to church. My grandfather was a bishop.…

— Fetty Wap

My parents subscribed to both Time and Newsweek and in 1978, I remember the covers of both that December were of the…

— Julia Scheeres

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because…

— Anais Nin

What you're experiencing now [on "MasterChef," on "Junior"] is what life's going to be like for the next four, five decades. You're…

— Gordon Ramsay

No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible…

— Matt Shea

The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first…

— Jean Piaget

The thing I like the best, especially being a parent of so many kids, Is that they're all so different. You love…

— Nick Lachey

I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my…

— Carl Jung

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

— Indra Nooyi

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

— Neil Gaiman

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

— John Ray

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

— Maurice Sendak

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.

— Ava DuVernay

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

— Aesop

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

— Hunter Parrish

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

— Alan King