Parent Quotes · Page 23

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

— Thorsten Heins

Being a parent changes you in life. I am responsible now.

— Emma Hayes

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

— Brad Meltzer

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

— Jonny Lang

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

— Marco Pierre White

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

— Steven Spielberg

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

— Alain de Botton

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can…

— Mary Pipher

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

— Robert Winston

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

— Alexa Vega

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

— Moby

“Nothing in the world could ever compare to the feeling of becoming a parent, no amount of money or power.”

— Jazmyne

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

— Mick Foley

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on the look-out for the warning signs. Performance…

— Chuck Grassley

The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children…

— Jewell Parker Rhodes

My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part…

— Molly Ringwald

And it was important to my parents that I get my degree in 4 years, because "Money doesn't grow on trees." [LOL]…

— Wendy Williams

Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual…

— Emma Goldman

There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals.…

— Sherry Turkle

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are?…

— Pablo Casals

“You feel ill-equipped to meet your child’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Because, for the most part, you are. God wants you…

— Kathi Lipp

My parents never put a lot of pressure on us to be any kind of way… I have my funny moments where…

— Scarlett Johansson

Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of…

— Michelle Obama

We enslave, torture and then slaughter animals to eat them, then when we eventually become sick from that we enslave, torture and…

— Sharon Gannon

This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in…

— Thomas S. Monson

“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed…

— Jonathan Franzen

I had these couple of hippie guy friends who were super broke and living in the attic of somebody's house and they…

— Cassandra Peterson

Single parents, I testify that as you do your very best in the most difficult of human challenges, heaven will smile upon…

— David S. Baxter

My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.

— Gary Shteyngart

My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.

— Pamela Anderson

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

— Amber Valletta

I think it is since I became a parent that I am much more afraid.

— Nadine Coyle

As a parent, instilling core values and faith-based principles is important to me.

— Phaedra Parks

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

— Vincent Cassel

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

— Bill Moyers

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

— Mark Twain