Parent Quotes · Page 32

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

— Robert D. Putnam

Having one child makes you a parent; having two youare referee

— David Frost

My parents are actually very hip. They're way hipper than me.

— Peter Vack

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

— David Copperfield

Being a younger parent doesn't prevent tragedy.

— Amanda Redman

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

— Bill Fitch

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

— Plato

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

— Cory Monteith

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like…

— Finn Andrews

My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.

— Loni Anderson

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

— Dave Barry

Any parent wants what is best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the…

— Tony Blair

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

— Michael Bergin

Having a child is not like taking a spouse; there is no mutual agreement entered into. It is up the parent to…

— Alice Dreger

Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!

— Dana Gould

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out…

— Lisa Unger

I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent…

— Steve Jobs

Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be…

— Laura Wasser

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition…

— Phil McGraw

I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about…

— Judd Apatow

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent…

— Anne-Marie Duff

The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly.…

— Oliver DeMille

There's a lot of fear - in fact, teachers and parents are calling it the Trump effect. Bullying is up. A lot…

— Hillary Clinton

It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out…

— Nelly Furtado

Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who…

— Edward Hoagland

One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their…

— Ellen Gilchrist

Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you…

— Paul Washer

I would encourage my children to protect themselves if there's any sort of physical abuse against them. I would definitely go speak…

— Rib Hillis

We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to…

— Jim Morrison

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

— Woody Allen

Being a parent means loving your children , more than you've ever loved yourself.

— Troy Buckner

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

— Ross Perot

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

— Mariel Zagunis

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“Could we betray our parents by going back to them?”

— Karen Russell

Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing.

— Werner Erhard

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

— Ninon de L'Enclos