Parent Quotes · Page 81

I’ve met kids who haven’t had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at…

— Common

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect…

— Brad Meltzer

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need…

— Jesse Jackson

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to…

— Martin Freeman

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

— Robert Smith

Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.

— Dallas Willard

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

— Frank Pittman

The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant.…

— Ellen Goodman

But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives…

— Xiaolu Guo

My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented…

— Chukwudi Iwuji

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy.…

— Jack Gantos

At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we…

— Barack Obama

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been…

— Hugh Jackman

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are?…

— Pablo Casals

The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children…

— Jewell Parker Rhodes

Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you,…

— Lionel Shriver

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,…

— Margaret Sanger

Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them…

— Anne Cassidy

It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the…

— Lore Segal

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass…

— Albert Einstein

In the segregated South, education was almost like armor. It was a way to put yourself in a category where even with…

— Condoleezza Rice

As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I…

— Daniel Defoe

This is the world we live in, a world of safety and happiness and order, a world without love. A world where…

— Lauren Oliver

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

— Margaret Fuller

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

— Henry B. Eyring

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

— Henry Louis Gates

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

— John Hurt

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

— Ted Simon

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

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

— Ricky Martin

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Melissa Harris-Perry

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

— Paul Walker

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

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

— Kathryn Hahn

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Deepak Chopra