Parent Quotes · Page 25

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

— Brad Meltzer

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

— Jonny Lang

My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.

— Pamela Anderson

My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.

— Gary Shteyngart

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

— Mark Twain

There's nobody stronger than a single parent.

— Anonymous

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

— Sophie Kinsella

It is a violent sport that we choose as men, and that we as parents allow our children to play.

— Troy Vincent

Being a parent means putting your selfish wants behind you and sacrificing everything you love for your child!

— Anonymous

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

— Miranda Cosgrove

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people…

— George Clinton

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.

— Anonymous

We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of…

— Bernie Sanders

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

— Tatyana Ali

The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…

— J. B. Priestley

I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do…

— Jonah Hill

People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Adore God. Reverence and cherish your parents. Love your neighbor as yourself, and your country more than yourself. Be just. Be true.…

— Thomas Jefferson

I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability…

— Dakota Fanning

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because…

— Hillary Clinton

I always want her to know she is loved. But I will make my own mistakes, I know. I can only hope…

— Anonymous

Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally…

— Benjamin Spock

I think that people have been looking at 40 years of flat wages. You know, the reality is you've got folks in…

— Keith Ellison

Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child…

— Henri Nouwen

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are…

— Thomas Jefferson

They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be…

— Richard Ford

My parents were true believers in the efficacy of American constitutional democracy, and I was thoroughly inculcated with reverence for what we…

— Al Gore

We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people…

— Sasha Abramsky

I think that parents ought to get some idea of how the so- called "experts" have changed their advice over the decades,…

— Benjamin Spock

The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to…

— John Tooby

A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields.

— Jeffrey K. Zeig

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

— Amber Valletta

I think it is since I became a parent that I am much more afraid.

— Nadine Coyle

As a parent, instilling core values and faith-based principles is important to me.

— Phaedra Parks

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

— Bill Moyers

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

— Vincent Cassel

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

— Samuel West

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

— Timothy Carey