A parent has to be silent much of the time.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job…

— Taylor Hanson

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

— Salman Rushdie

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare,…

— Tom DeLay

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in…

— Susan Jeffers

Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or…

— Sheila Kamerman

I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it…

— Naomi Watts

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

— Shia LaBeouf

Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now…

— Joseph Chilton Pearce

My parents don't care what Americans think of us; we just care what the other Indian people in our community think of us.

— Himanshu Suri

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

— Havelock Ellis

I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not know what…

— Anonymous

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand…

— Dorothy Hamill

Take the government away. Let the parents take care of their kids.

— Bruce Bickford

My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and…

— Elliott Yamin