Parent Quotes · Page 38

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

— Nadine Coyle

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

— Amber Valletta

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

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

— Franz Boas

Envy is the last thing that my parents feel.

— Keira Knightley

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

— John Leguizamo

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

— Roald Dahl

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

— Kevin Eubanks

“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.”

— Jarod Kintz

I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.

— Hilaria Baldwin

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or…

— Leon Kass

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

— Bill Ayers

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages…

— Eric McCormack

If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how…

— Max Heindel

To be a parent, especially to rock 'n' roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the…

— Ozzy Osbourne

We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive…

— St. Lucia

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures…

— Marlo Thomas

I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such…

— Alison Eastwood

All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the…

— Richard Cumberland

Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family…

— Shere Hite

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents.…

— Alex Flinn

You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of…

— Valmiki

Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the…

— George Carlin

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and…

— Anna Quindlen

You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children…

— Roy Masters

America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, the child is automatically…

— Florence King

I was raised with a mother who told me that I wouldn't succeed, that I wasn't good enough. Even at the pinnacle…

— Sarah McLachlan

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for…

— Sugata Mitra

Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring…

— Richard Ebeling

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

— Leon Kass

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

— Danny Bonaduce

I'm very lucky to have a good co-parent to work with.

— Ruben Gallego

When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

— Mason Cooley

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

— Sydney J. Harris

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

— Roger L'Estrange

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

— Faye Wattleton

I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

— P. J. O'Rourke