Parent Quotes · Page 69

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than…

— Sean Covey

Being a parent means doing what's right in situations where your own desires and pleasures aren't most important.

— Anonymous

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children…

— Ricky Martin

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we…

— Michel Houellebecq

Nobody is free… Everyone has a prison. Wife, parents, children, they all make prisons.

— Ted Simon

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

— John Hurt

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it…

— Anita Baker

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or…

— Kate DiCamillo

We often think about happiness as trying to increase our joy, but it's also about decreasing our worry. So what you get…

— Dan Buettner

My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome…

— Ashton Kutcher

Whats happening in America today is parents are emphasizing their relationship with their children instead of leadership. Anyone in leadership will tell…

— John Rosemond

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed…

— Erma Bombeck

Thank God that Bumble-Ardy's parents are dead so we don't have to wonder what they did to him. We only know that…

— Maurice Sendak

So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what?…

— Michael Thomas Ford

Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one…

— Jimmy Fallon

“This was Josie’s preferred method of parenting: go someplace like this, with grand scale and much to be discovered, and watch your…

— Dave Eggers

“Nothing in Chomsky's account acknowledges the difference between intending to kill a child, because of the effect you hope to produce on…

— Sam Harris

I believe that the most urgent need of parents today is to instill in our children a moral vision: what does it…

— Marianne Williamson

I had a tough childhood, yes. I was born in rural Bangladesh to parents who had had no education beyond high school.…

— Zia Haider Rahman

We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to…

— Orlando Figes

When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist…

— Kola Boof

Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone…

— David E. Sorensen

Because people learn from their mistakes, Danger. Pain and failure are a natural part of life. It's kind of like a parent…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Anyone who has a parent can relate to this idea of not quite understanding who your parents are or making up stories…

— Taika Waititi

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

— Chloe Sevigny

A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is…

— Shirley Manson

I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on…

— Drew Carey

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

— Sally Field

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

— Peter Breggin

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

— Abraham Lincoln

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive…

— Murray Walker

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

— George Saunders

Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me.

— Kesha

Our greatest priority as Christian parents is to gradually transfer our children's dependence away from us until it rests solely on God.

— Craig Groeschel

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

— Aisling Bea

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

— Jimmy Barnes

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

— Mary Pipher

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

— LaToya Jackson