Parent Quotes · Page 14

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

— Emmy Rossum

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

— Mike Fitzpatrick

I have big dreams. I want to keep songwriting. Direct films. Be a parent.

— Sia

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

— Olivia Wilde

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

— Rajneesh

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

— Patricia Richardson

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

— Julia Serano

As a parent who works in showbiz, you never really want your child to go into it.

— Stephen Schwartz

I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person,…

— Chelsea Clinton

Children key off their parents’ reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself.

— Anonymous

Every parent wants to do what's best for their child. Whatever I can afford, I'm going to get my kid the best…

— Michael Moore

It is the duty of every parent, citizens, yours and mine to strengthen among boys the sense of respect towards women.

— Ram Nath Kovind

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents,…

— William Fitzsimmons

I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you…

— Angelina Jolie

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix…

— Karen Joy Fowler

we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

— Erica Jong

Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music…

— Madi Diaz

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Some people take the spelling bee very seriously. These people are called "parents of children in the spelling bee." They're trying to…

— Craig Ferguson

All over China, parents tell their children to stop complaining and to finish their quadratic equations and trigonometric functions because there are…

— Michael Cunningham

Knowing the only way out is education, even if you don't have parents that are extraordinarily wealthy. I understand that I have…

— Viola Davis

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each…

— Jack Black

All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my…

— Matt Damon

I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or…

— Fred Rogers

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization…

— Nikola Tesla

I was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 A.M. You get used to it. You get…

— Teddy Sears

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from…

— Laura Riding

Being branded to some subset of your fans is important when it comes to creating films and characters they're not familiar with.…

— Christopher Meledandri

My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I…

— Harry West

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential,…

— Ayn Rand

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine…

— Joe Dunthorne

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

— Elizabeth George

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

— Uma Thurman

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

— Christina Aguilera

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.

— Arthur W. Pink

I'm terrified for what is in store for me as a parent!

— Jean Louisa Kelly

I've lost both my parents and I don't think you ever get used to it.

— Ainsley Harriott

Rock is always about rebelling against the parents.

— D'arcy Wretzky

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

— David Frost