Parent Quotes · Page 24

There's nobody stronger than a single parent.

— Anonymous

A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields.

— Jeffrey K. Zeig

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

— Sophie Kinsella

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

— Sean Covey

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

— Robert Breault

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

— Anonymous

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

— Tom Hooper

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

— Julian Casablancas

“You know you have succeeded as a parent when you find yourself taking advice from your children.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from…

— Gwen Stefani

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

— Amy Vanderbilt

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

— Gena Rowlands

My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let…

— Penelope Cruz

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

— Ellen Goodman

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

— Robert Muller

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

— Arpad Busson

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been…

— Hugh Jackman

These parents, they think I'm a role model for their kids, that their kids look at me as some sort of idol.…

— Britney Spears

My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were…

— Anita Hill

Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down,…

— Jello Biafra

I knew that I wanted to live in a city, but had never really been to New York. But I was begging…

— Cherien Dabis

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering.…

— Anonymous

If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's…

— David Elkind

I am the youngest of four siblings, and were all so close. I dont know where I would be without my brothers…

— Marissa Jaret Winokur

All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous…

— Jack Kirby

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.…

— Anonymous

I think that one of the challenges for a parent and myself as a parent is that we live in a very…

— Josh Prince

I think I was always informally thinking about choice from when I was a very young child because I was born to…

— Sheena Iyengar

I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things…

— Hanya Yanagihara

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for…

— Isaac Watts

The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself…

— Anonymous

Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look…

— Gelek Rimpoche

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

— Mark Batterson

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

— Sara Paxton

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

— Wes Fesler

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

— Daryl Gregory

The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.

— Molly Shannon

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

— Indra Nooyi

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

— Robert Hunter