Parent Quotes · Page 82

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

— Maya Rudolph

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

— Mel Carnahan

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

— Anonymous

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

— Micky Dolenz

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

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

— Adam Jacobs

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

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

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance…

— Chuck Grassley

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part…

— Molly Ringwald

And it was important to my parents that I get my degree in 4 years, because "Money doesn't grow on trees." [LOL]…

— Wendy Williams

There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals.…

— Sherry Turkle

Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual…

— Emma Goldman

I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become…

— Rhymefest

If the White House could do more to tell parents that getting children reading is their business too, we'd see a big…

— James Patterson

“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along…

— Gregory Maguire

One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this…

— Kenneth Keniston

Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you…

— Jennifer Lopez

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the…

— William Saroyan

I grew up in a very small house with five brothers and sisters and my parents, all with one little bathroom. And…

— John Varvatos

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments…

— Anne Lamott

I was fortunate because I had parents who believed that being a writer was a perfectly acceptable thing to want to be.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

And I do not want, and I will not accept, a deal in which I am asked to do nothing, in fact,…

— Barack Obama

I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings,…

— Julian Barnes

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

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

— Miles Franklin

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

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

— George Saunders

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

— Murray Walker

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Peter Breggin

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

— Jerry Reinsdorf

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

— LaToya Jackson

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

— Jimmy Barnes

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

— Aisling Bea

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

— Anonymous

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