Parent Quotes · Page 46

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

— Dhani Harrison

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

— Allyson Felix

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

— Christopher Eccleston

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

— Hakim

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

— Tippi Hedren

“To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves.”

— Hal Edward Runkel

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

— Shia LaBeouf

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

— Brian Austin Green

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have…

— Samantha Morton

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent…

— Kevin Nealon

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I…

— Jeff Bridges

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent…

— Samuel Griswold Goodrich

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

— Morton Hunt

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her…

— Robert Benton

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so…

— Teresa Palmer

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the…

— Lizz Winstead

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned…

— John Lone

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects…

— Henry Adams

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad,…

— Chelsea Clinton

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no…

— Bill Cosby

It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll…

— Pete Docter

My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in…

— Daniel H. Pink

Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or…

— Sal Albanese

I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was…

— Andrew Lam

We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed…

— Ernest Lawrence

At a certain age your parents seem like the most embarrassing thing on the whole entire planet, and you want to be…

— Vanessa Hudgens

Certainly there was the Affordable Care Act part, then unaccompanied children [there has been a surge of children entering the country illegally…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

I'm really fortunate to have been to the schools I've been to, and to have the experiences I've had. And, partly since…

— Steven C. Harper

I grew up in a Christian home, but was nearly 17 before I realized I had to make my own decision to…

— Drew Pinsky

Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to…

— Walter E. Williams

If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You…

— Rajneesh

Grandmother a little bit parent,a little bit teacher,and a little bit best friend

— Anonymous

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

— Tom Hodgkinson

To a teenager there's nothing more embarrassing than a parent.

— Anonymous

I'm a homebody. I like having my parents around.

— Michael Fishman

We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent.

— Heather Brooke

“The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.”

— Richard Kelly

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

— Penn Dayton Badgley

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

— Chetan Bhagat