Parent Quotes · Page 104

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my…

— Ani DiFranco

I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

Valentines Day is a day we celebrate real love. A love so strong that two hearts become one. Yeah, when you're happy,…

— Christopher Titus

Uh, what are you doing?” “Nothing much. Just erasing all of Calinda’s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators…

— Jennifer Estep

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when…

— Charles Barkley

It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban…

— Richard Louv

I really put the fear of God into my son, because children are such sponges. The earlier you teach them the law…

— Cherie Currie

I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Here in Los Angeles, school's out for summer. For thousands of school kids, this is the first week of summer vacation. And…

— Craig Ferguson

Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it…

— Glenda Jackson

“My children taught me the true meaning of unconditional love.”

— Yvonne Pierre

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s…

— Debra Ginsberg

How does Love speak? In the faint flush upon the telltale cheek, And in the pallor that succeeds it; by The quivering…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want…

— Brian Tracy

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget…

— Jodi Picoult

My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like,…

— Emma Stone

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a…

— Renzo Rosso

I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have…

— Melanie Laurent

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

— William Godwin

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

— Joe Elliott

Being a parent has become incredibly important to me. I never knew how much I would be altered by my children. I…

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

— Melissa Etheridge

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

— Walt Disney

I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues.…

— Howard Gardner

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on…

— Cassandra Clare

I saw my parents, as immigrants, try and try and try to take root and get ahead and so yes, 'Sweat' resonates…

— Carlo Alban

I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and I remember, when I was seven years old, I asked my…

— Meaghan Rath

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

— Shaquille O'Neal

Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their…

— Rozz Williams

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the…

— Aristotle

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers…

— Henry David Thoreau

After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was…

— Dane Cook

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

— Morgan Freeman

Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?" "Does it matter?" said…

— Marissa Meyer

When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions…

— Steve Gaynor

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

— Pope Francis

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

— Vinnie Jones

I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret…

— Jason Mraz

Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

— Sally Ride