Parent Quotes · Page 54

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

— Bruno Tonioli

Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you.

— Bill Cosby

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

— Anonymous

When you become a parent, you start loving diapers.

— Chance The Rapper

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

— Kendrick Lamar

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

— Anthony Hopkins

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

— Vicki Lansky

When a parent has two children, it is difficult to pick one favourite.

— Frank Rijkaard

It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

— Herbert Spencer

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

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

— Gloria Estefan

I didn't even realize this at first, but there's almost no central character in any of my 24 books who doesn't have…

— Gregory Maguire

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if…

— Anthony Rapp

My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was…

— Steven Stamkos

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

— Ron Reagan

Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan…

— Ted Cruz

After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical…

— Jon Stewart

I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then…

— Lauren Bacall

The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is…

— George Reisman

I was like, "Who the hell is Bob Dylan?" I was going to learn one song to appease my mom and alphabetically…

— Ezra Furman

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of…

— Henry Louis Gates

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our…

— Margaret Mead

Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't…

— Chrissy Teigen

I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education…

— Amartya Sen

Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be…

— Linji Yixuan

Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have…

— Mary Pipher

My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room,…

— Malala Yousafzai

We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children.…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

There was a television show called The Innocents of Hollywood. Brooke Shields is a friend of mine and she saw one of…

— Laura Dern

There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as…

— J. D. Daniels

What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect…

— Joan Mondale

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

— Sally Phillips

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't think it negates your skills as a parent if you're homosexual.

— Rosie O'Donnell

My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.

— Harry Lloyd

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

— Maya Angelou

When kids are kids, everything a parent does seems goofy.

— Butch Hartman

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.

— Charlie Day