Parent Quotes · Page 33

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

— Khalil Gibran

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

— Chris Hemsworth

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

— Annie Lennox

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

— Daniel Webster

Having a parent who served in the military has made me a better journalist.

— Harris Faulkner

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

— Tanya Tucker

We never know the love of a parent till we come parents ourselves.

— Anonymous

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

— George Herbert

The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the…

— Rumaan Alam

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

— Marguerite Moreau

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign…

— Jenny McCarthy

Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a…

— Jessi Klein

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and…

— Laura Linney

My parent are very proud, but Dad ripped into me for throwing a club on the 11th. He's happy with the way…

— Rory McIlroy

I'm their sole parent, and there is nothing more important than being the best father I can be.

— John Edwards

His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression…

— Anonymous

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British,…

— Chris Froome

“Through my parent's reading, I learned to love books. Through their humour, I learned to laugh. Through their discipline I learned obedience,…

— Anonymous

The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown.…

— Rick Santorum

Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what…

— David Sedaris

My parents and grandparents always made me feel fortunate. I'm in a position to help others feel the same. It's just in…

— Kevin Martin

Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so…

— Dale Chihuly

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the…

— Jodi Picoult

I'm not really an ideologue. I think I'm a person of common sense. I think more than anything else and I was…

— Donald Trump

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been…

— Neil Strauss

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with…

— Frank Pittman

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from…

— Laura Riding

I was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 A.M. You get used to it. You get…

— Teddy Sears

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization…

— Nikola Tesla

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the…

— Otsuichi

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.

— Nick Hornby

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

— Nicholas Sparks

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

— Richard Whately

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

— Alan Sugar

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

— Alison Moyet

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

— Richard L. Evans