Parent Quotes · Page 66

The only parents in the world who don’t need sleep, and our child already sleeps through the night. Edward Cullen, Breaking Dawn,…

— Stephenie Meyer

No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

— Brad Pitt

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

— Rita Mae Brown

“I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around…

— Kiera Cass

I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if…

— George W. Bush

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Kids really need love from two parents. It doesn't matter if it's a mom and a mom, or a dad and a…

— Brendon Ayanbadejo

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like…

— Joan Rivers

As the shell, the pith and the kernel of the fruit are all produced form one parent seed of the tree, so…

— Ramakrishna

Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I think every family has that moment when the parents realize they need help and think, Oh my gosh. We cannot do…

— Nia Long

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years…

— Steve Jobs

My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who…

— Lana Del Rey

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so…

— Michael Scott

Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers…

— Jean Marzollo

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw…

— Louise Bourgeois

The inspiration starts with the armor my parents collected. The references are subtle, whether in the mix of textures (woven, quilted, pleated)…

— Tory Burch

Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for…

— Patrick Duffy

The fruit of humanity is devotion to one's parents. The fruit of righteousness is to respect one's elders. The fruit of wisdom…

— Mencius

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge…

— Joan Cusack

The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to…

— Frank Pittman

What kind of country are we, to participate in separating mothers and fathers from their children? Right now we have," and whatever…

— Rush Limbaugh

I was not ambitious as a child. My father encouraged me to enter competitions and contests, which became very much part of…

— Laura Pausini

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we…

— Mitch Albom

Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

— Jerry Rubin

Ever had a parent who embarrassed u??? Of course you did, this is what happens when a parent hurts me.

— Haley Nichole

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And…

— Billy Eichner

I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at…

— Albert Einstein

Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

— Horace

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

— Alexa Chung

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

— Alain Robert

If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like…

— Mark Hoppus

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a…

— Leo Tolstoy

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were…

— Jon Bon Jovi

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

— Dr. Seuss

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

— Chris Hughes

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

— Britt Ekland

This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.

— Anonymous

Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health…

— Marian Wright Edelman