Parent Quotes · Page 68

Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still,…

— Charles R. Swindoll

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

— Rick Warren

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents…

— Micky Dolenz

Being a parent is saying 'I love you so much, I'm willing to step on LEGOS barefoot every day for about 10…

— Anonymous

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

— Mel Carnahan

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

— Maya Rudolph

Try not to worry what your parents think - try to help them see that you do live by the values that…

— Deepak Chopra

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.

— Samuel Johnson

Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There…

— Anonymous

Make sure your son and daughter understands they don't get to decide when or where they go to war. It is rich,…

— Tomas Young

The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you…

— Katy Perry

I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can't keep our children…

— Glennon Doyle Melton

“Thank you for the time we shared, for the love you gave, for the wisdom you spread. I will always treasure the…

— Naomi Levy

If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better…

— Ellen Goodman

My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was…

— Mike Greenberg

Parents create guilt. That is the greatest sin against humanity. To create guilt in a child is criminal because once the guilt…

— Rajneesh

The child knows only that he engages in play because it is enjoyable. He isn't aware of his need to play--a need…

— Bruno Bettelheim

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents,…

— William Fitzsimmons

Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal,…

— Virginia Satir

Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes,…

— Stella Chess

I was proud, excited and a little frightened. It was all taking off so quickly…the more successful the boys were, the further…

— Cynthia Lennon

EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline…

— Noah Webster

Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my…

— Michael Jackson

My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through…

— Dick Vitale

I got a liberal arts education just because I felt like I should to keep my parents happy, but it was for…

— Kathryn Hahn

I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a…

— Emily Yoffe

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

— Paul Walker

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

— Melissa Harris-Perry

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can…

— Miles Franklin

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown…

— John Waters

I change my techniques according to what the child or the parent needs, or the family as a whole needs, but as…

— Jo Frost

Clary- "How to Come Out to Your Parents," she read out loud. "LUKE. Don't be ridiculous. Simon's not gay, he's a vampire.

— Cassandra Clare

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach…

— Umberto Eco

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

— Adam Jacobs

We have to have a school board that's actually gonna be able to function and that has true parent representatives on it.

— Lori Lightfoot

I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find…

— Emma Donoghue

My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

— Henry Louis Gates

God loves his children more than any earthly parent, so think what your kindness to his children means to him.

— Henry B. Eyring

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

— Margaret Fuller

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

— Frank Pittman