Parent Quotes · Page 24

Ninety per cent of being a parent is just being present and available.

— John Cho

As a mum, the last thing you need is to be parent-shamed.

— Vogue Williams

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“believed him. Just thinking that a parent could do”

— Madison Grace

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

— Laura Schlessinger

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

— Taylor Lautner

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

— Maya Harris

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

No parent should be denied from their Scouting - their son's Scouting experience simply because those parents happen to be gay.

— Gwen Ifill

Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don’t need to be alive for that to happen.

— Randy Pausch

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

— Simon Sinek

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

— Akshaye Khanna

A step parent is so much more than just a parent; they made the choice to love when they didn't have to.

— Nishan Panwar

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else…

— Kevin Federline

My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.

— Vincent Nichols

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to…

— Bob Lilly

When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note…

— Rodney Dangerfield

My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are…

— Alissa Nutting

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when…

— Michael Franti

You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter…

— Jodie Foster

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up,…

— Ibn Warraq

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with…

— Drew Barrymore

A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because…

— Garrison Keillor

Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a…

— Linda Hoaglund

The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more…

— Sloane Crosley

My parents are both lawyers, and my father always said his best cases have been returns, cases that come into his office…

— Olivia Williams

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place…

— Anonymous

I think you are looking at sexuality and not attributes, and I think it's odd because the conservative mantra is a meritocracy.…

— Jon Stewart

We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part…

— Jeff Daniels

This is why the terrorists hate us. And it's not the glitter and it's not the pomp and circumstance. We've got black…

— Adam Carolla

One of the things that happened that I think is noteworthy, my parents were pretty tolerant people given their position in society.…

— Bill Ayers

Being a parent changes you in life. I am responsible now.

— Emma Hayes

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

— Thorsten Heins

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

— Ted Cruz

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

— Kendra Wilkinson

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

— Lexa Doig

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

— Patrick Rothfuss

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