Parent Quotes · Page 114

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

— James Worthy

When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple…

— Withered Hand

The Affordable Care Act is a huge problem. [Repealing the ACA is] going to have huge implications. We have millennials that live…

— Marty Walsh

It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an…

— Peter Morgan

We are more than we imagine ourselves to be. It's what we tell our children, our parents, our friends. But how often…

— Veronica Chambers

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

— Shefali Tsabary

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew…

— Geena Davis

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

My parents aren't artists or anything, but growing up in Wales, especially in a Welsh language school and community, they have this…

— Iwan Rheon

My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm…

— Dree Hemingway

Nobody wants to be a bad parent.

— Carrie Preston

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and…

— Pat Derby

MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food…

— Gordon Ramsay

Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When…

— Mary Pipher

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with…

— Julie Salamon

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and…

— Jon Hamm

In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are…

— Delia Ephron

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of…

— St. Vincent

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially…

— Jennifer Lynch

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

— Daniel Defoe

Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be…

— Linji Yixuan

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

— Kevin Eubanks

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

— LaToya Jackson

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

— Maureen Johnson

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely…

— Gloria Steinem

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to…

— Charles Darwin

We should protect life but I'm not interested in anything that restricts birth control. And I'm not interested in anything that restricts…

— Ted Cruz

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

— Arne Duncan

I think that what kids watch now a days is different than what kids watch when I was young so I don't…

— Mila Kunis

The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home…

— Howard Dean

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated…

— Robert Griffin III

To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact,…

— Frank Iero

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving…

— Anonymous

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

— C. Everett Koop

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent…

— Srikumar Rao

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and…

— Paul Nurse

The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can…

— Geraldine Ferraro

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

— Mona Simpson

From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from…

— Erasmus Darwin

It's not that I succeed, it's that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

— Attila the Hun