Parent Quotes · Page 30

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

— Pope Francis

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

— Dov Davidoff

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

— Mason Cooley

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

— Melanie Fiona

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

— Kid Rock

Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.

— Jim Gaffigan

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

— Philo

“When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.”

— Marybeth Hicks

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for…

— Jenna Elfman

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the…

— Ridley Scott

I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent…

— Dee Rees

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

— James Madison

A good, all-loving god would not destroy his creations no matter how they act. He tells parents to love their children unconditionally.…

— Ryan Hofmeister

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while…

— Denise Juneau

I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in…

— Patti Davis

I also know that I have represented for us a certain kind of journalist and for me over the years when an…

— Ed Gordon

I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because…

— Rodney Atkins

I try to be a good daughter, as I believe in karma and feel that how you are with your parents is…

— Shilpa Shetty

One [of the two ideas for PROOF] was to write about two sisters who are quarreling over the legacy of something left…

— David Auburn

It's tough for a child to deal with expectations that people have if they have a successful parent. A child often fails…

— Soni Razdan

There is one thing you and I as parents cannot do, not do we want to do if we really think about…

— Barbara Coloroso

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just…

— Robert Webb

I am certainly vulnerable when I sit down with parents who have lost their children to gun violence. The emotion that they…

— Michael Skolnik

Of course the thoughts and awareness are there, but it's all incomplete and often fanciful - kids know there's something to know,…

— Carolyn Hax

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

To the fuki plant, dandelions, and their kind that lie for long patiently under the fallen snow, comes the season of breezy…

— Kobayashi Issa

God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated…

— George Coyne

I know that Dad was an idol to millions who grew up loving his music and his ideals. But to me he…

— Julian Lennon

Parents sometimes simply don't have enough hands and time and attention to do all that is urgent. But in all things there…

— Richard L. Evans

Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick…

— Richard Louv

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

Being a parent is no joke I commend and respect all the good parents out there!

— Anonymous

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

— Eric Dickerson

As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children

— Masha Gessen

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

— Aristotle

I don't know what I'm doing as a parent at all.

— Anna Faris

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

— Anthony Quinn

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

— Richard Louv