Parent Quotes · Page 62

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth.…

— Anthony Trollope

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

— Christie Brinkley

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think…

— Frank Shorter

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

— Edward Dyer

I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in…

— George W. Bush

When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all…

— Jeppe Hein

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a…

— Brian Blessed

Kollywood is my parent film industry. It was here that I was born as an actress and grew as an artist.

— Asin

I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for…

— Denzel Washington

You can't find a YouTube clip to become a craftsman, friend, parent - or disciple of Christ. It's all of grace. And…

— Michael Horton

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me…

— Charlotte Bronte

“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission,…

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

We are beloved spirit sons and daughters of heavenly parents, with a divine nature and destiny. Our Savior, Jesus Christ, loved us…

— Carole M. Stephens

It is every parent's nightmare when a child is in trouble with the law. As a parent, you can do your best…

— Jesse White

The commandment to honor parents was given to ensure that the elderly, although they may not feel wanted by family or society,…

— Laura Schlessinger

I had a very happy childhood and very loving parents. We didn't have much money and I suppose therefore you felt that…

— Terry Leahy

There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father…

— George Carlin

Night terrors are in deep sleep, and they're more common in kids, as are nightmares, but what happens in a night terror…

— Shelby Harris

It's a crazy time right now with kids. They are so much, more savvy than even their parents are. They are handing…

— Tyra Banks

Young women know that something is off; they know that the world is a messed-up place. They know that the world is…

— Jessica Valenti

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way…

— Sharon Olds

There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era,…

— Elizabeth Lesser

No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family…

— Russell M. Nelson

Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring…

— Susan Forward

And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But…

— Ken Wilber

Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that…

— Cameron Esposito

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember…

— Umberto Eco

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

— Shaquille O'Neal

The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or…

— Siddharth Katragadda

Being a teenage mum and a single parent hasn't been easy but I wouldn't change it for the world.

— Stacey Solomon

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

— Keith Murray

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it?…

— Michael Jordan

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

— Frank Pittman

It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to…

— Mitch Albom

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

— Polly Berrien Berends

I talk to my parents everyday and every move that I make, every endorsement that I do, every film that I do…

— Deepika Padukone

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

— Chris Hughes

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me…

— Temple Grandin

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

— Bill Walton

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

— Daniel Handler