Parent Quotes · Page 3

My parents didn't play golf.

— Amy Alcott

You can't be the perfect parent.

— Zoe Ball

My own parents were touchy-feely.

— Ben Stiller

The Pain Of Losing A Child

— Anonymous

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

— Diana Vreeland

Being a parent is a tiring business.

— Les Dennis

History is the third parent.

— Nadeem Aslam

My parents are pretty cool people.

— Dominic Monaghan

This is hard for parents to say genuinely.

— Rollo May

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

— Lisa See

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

— Sheridan Smith

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

— Meredith Brooks

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

— Dominique Wilkins

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

— Jose Rizal

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

— Malachy McCourt

I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

— Penny Junor

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

— Jaron Lanier

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

— Emo Philips

I feel what a spouse can do for you, no child or parent can. Just that if you get the right connect…

— Karan Johar

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a…

— Carol Moseley Braun

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening…

— Josephine de La Baume

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

— Nelson Mandela

[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And…

— Charlie Brooker

I related so much to the responsibility of being a parent, the responsibility of "did you screw your kid up," the responsibility…

— John Krasinski

We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't…

— Twiggy

We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important…

— Shakira

The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is…

— D. H. Lawrence

I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then…

— Neil Patrick Harris

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The…

— Ted Nugent

While being a parent has been the most fulfilling experience of my life, it comes with a price. Besides the onslaught of…

— Paul G. Tremblay

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my…

— Paul Nurse

But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child.…

— Janet Reno

The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do…

— Sara Benincasa

Tell me about it. It’s so hard to deal with a single parent. They take out all their anxiety on you. It’s…

— Susane Colasanti

Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise. Family members may learn to be obedient, honest, industrious, self-reliant,…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out…

— Mary Blakely

How do you juggle it all?’ people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. ‘You’re screwing it all up,…

— Tina Fey

To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun…

— Digger Phelps

I think the single most important question is how do you maximize the number of children who grow up in stable two-parent…

— David Frum

When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and…

— Naturi Naughton