Parent Quotes · Page 310

Unhealthy families discourage individual expression. Everyone must conform to the thoughts and actions of the toxic parents. They promote fusion, a blurring…

— Susan Forward

My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every…

— Christopher Parker

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

— Joe Strummer

Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to…

— Robin Marantz Henig

Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know…

— Rajneesh

My parents always have taught me 'you're good enough'. So, whenever I got bad comments from the judges, or I'd get on…

— Carmen Rasmusen

Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to…

— Stephen Colbert

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

— Ron Paul

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years…

— Steve Jobs

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what…

— George Clinton

I'm a naturalized Italian, but I'm from Ghana. I was abandoned by my parents and adopted by two angels. I suffer with…

— Mario Balotelli

I love family. In this movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], my character is a successful OB-GYN and yet she goes back to her…

— Karla Souza

I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I had my breakthrough at 6 years old and received the Lord, Jesus Christ. I was so swept up in the spirit,…

— Jonathan Cain

Though I'm a very broad-minded girl, I don't think any parent would appreciate their daughter stripping on-screen.

— Sana Khan

My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the…

— Camille Paglia

On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last…

— William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should…

— Billy Kennedy

Christian! His parents had nine months to to think of a name, and the best they came up with was Christian!? My…

— Paul Heyman

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

— Oscar Wilde

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

— Phillip Lim

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of…

— Daniel Handler

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

— Louise Erdrich

Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on…

— Jenny McCarthy

The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents…

— Michael Chabon