Parent Quotes · Page 108

A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."

— Mark Hart

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship,…

— Mikhail Prokhorov

So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed…

— Anthony Horowitz

Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab…

— Anna Quindlen

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912.…

— Ethel Merman

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world,…

— Claudia Gray

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

— Gayle Forman

Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up…

— Michele Bachmann

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

— David Copperfield

Any statements from the parents may seem like criticism or judgment by the child or adolescent. It's very important that the child…

— Timothy Carey

There was that moment of, "Oh, my parents are watching Columbo and I hate it" to "No, I love this show, too."…

— June Diane Raphael

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

We all know that I failed as a parent. I'll be a way better grandparent than I was a parent, and that's…

— Scarface

I'm so grateful to my parents for my upbringing and for all of the opportunities that I was provided with, but I…

— Ivanka Trump

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want…

— Lionel Richie

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me…

— John Tesh

Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances…

— Frank Pittman

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out…

— Lisa Unger

When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.

— Carol Ann Susi

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

They're not allowed to talk about it at school and they maybe feel uncomfortable talking about it with their parents. But instead…

— Sarah Steele

I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't…

— Patti Smith

And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives,…

— Christopher Titus

I come from a very big family... nine parents.

— Jim Gaffigan

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

— Zachery Ty Bryan

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with…

— Bob Filner

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to…

— Pat Conroy

The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to…

— Fred Rogers

[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is…

— Jandy Nelson

Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm.…

— Stephen M. Irwin

It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents…

— Allison Janney

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

— Ben Marcus

But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a…

— Barack Obama

Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast…

— Sandra Scarr

What God is to the world, that parents are to their children.

— Philo

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's…

— Lee Haney

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern…

— James E. Faust