Parents Quotes · Page 98

Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.

— Pamela Druckerman

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

— Jane Pauley

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

— Chris Hemsworth

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

— Annie Lennox

You may believe or not, but it is true, in this world no one can give you truly love more than your…

— Anonymous

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

— George Thorogood

My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children.

— Mikey Madison

Parents: you spend too much time on the computer, it's like you're addicted me: fine can I go out parents: no

— Nisha

If sharp-elbowed parents are no longer able to buy themselves out of state education, they are incentivised to improve their local schools.

— Owen Jones

We had a band with our parents called Rockenhaim and we only played covers and our first gig was at a deli…

— Alana Haim

I have led amendments to protect and grow our domestic manufacturing and to establish a parents' bill of rights to make sure…

— John E. James

When a child or adolescent is troubled, the most important thing for the parent to focus on may very well be their…

— Timothy Carey

I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they…

— Tess Gerritsen

I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we…

— Yara Shahidi

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to…

— Jennifer Garner

There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one…

— Timothy Carey

“It’s hard for you to understand what goes on in parents’ mind. We have raised you to be someone, but now we…

— Arka Datta

Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose…

— Gordon Neufeld

“Running away from home is not a good idea. Unless, of course, you happen to be forty years old, and then your…

— Suzanne Selfors

“People have a much greater chance of finding something they’ll enjoy doing and making those greatest contributions when they trust themselves and…

— Lukasz Laniecki

“It dawned on him—as it hadn’t before; he was dense, he was slow—that his parents were five hundred miles away. They could…

— Chad Harbach

There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his…

— Milton Friedman

In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and…

— Louise Hart

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the…

— Elizabeth Debicki

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up

— Caroline B. Cooney

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit.

— Horace

A lot of parents are confused because they're reading a lot, and they can't make up their mind on what they're doing.

— Jo Frost

“As time flies, its the kid who becomes his parents' shadow.”

— Anonymous

Parents with a West Indian background tend to be more strict.

— Denise Lewis

Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing.

— Werner Erhard

“What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.”

— Amy Chua

I'm Scottish. Both my parents were born there, but I'm very proud of my Italian heritage as well.

— Dario Franchitti

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to…

— Erykah Badu

My parents are conservative. They really weren't in support of us dating before marriage.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I was raised a socialist by two very socialist parents, and I still feel very animated about socialist principles.

— Mariella Frostrup

Waiting for your parents to be in a good mood before asking them for something.

— Anonymous

My parents were both lawyers and were very active in social causes when I was young.

— Chris Connelly

“I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Deborah Norville”

— Deborah Norville

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

— Gabriel Macht