Parent Quotes · Page 15

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

— Louis L'Amour

The child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

— Meg Wolitzer

I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

— Dustin Hoffman

Dear daddy, I will find my prince some day but you will always be my king.

— Anonymous

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

— Mary Docter

Being a parent is a full time job + overtime!

— Anonymous

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.

— Timothy Olyphant

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

— Lynn Collins

You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run…

— Lady Gaga

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

— John Locke

I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household…

— Ricky Schroder

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

— William Landay

“Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.”

— Tom Swyers

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

— Russell Baker

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

— Zig Ziglar

What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm…

— Adrian Young

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything.…

— Anonymous

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background,…

— David Carson

The minute you become a parent, you're always going to wonder if you're doing something wrong, and I certainly experience that on…

— Emily Deschanel

Losing a child is totally overwhelming: you have no idea how you are going to carry on, how you will look after…

— Jason Watkins

I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at sheltering us from that.…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families…

— David Suzuki

When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I…

— Jack Jason

I shall take my present leave - but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in…

— George Washington

We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our…

— Yitzhak Rabin

Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members.…

— Anne Truitt

There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to…

— James M Strock

I knew I wanted to go to college and I wanted to study it acting, so I just looked for the best…

— Patrick Wilson

Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.” Once…

— Dean Hughes

I'm very blessed, mainly because even though my family is mostly in show business, it's really centered around music. My parents were…

— Rufus Wainwright

Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the…

— John Rosemond

“Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!”

— K. Lamb

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

— Edwin Moses

Being a parent means being there for your child through their worst times.

— Anonymous

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

— Aeschylus

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

— Mitch Albom

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

— Jodi Picoult

“Losing a parent, I guess it makes you realize none of us is gonna be immortal.”

— Mary Kay Andrews

Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension

— Masaru Emoto