Parent Quotes · Page 334

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

— Ozzy Osbourne

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

— John Updike

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

— Jane Pauley

There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the…

— Zoë Heller

My parents really encouraged me.

— Randy Castillo

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments…

— Anne Lamott

It's a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I'm…

— Angelina Jolie

Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach…

— Jennie Finch

I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are…

— Kate Thornton

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

— Paul Rudd

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer…

— Sylvia Kristel

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder…

— Heather O'Neill

I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to…

— Domhnall Gleeson

Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a…

— Ken Ludwig

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

— Neil Patrick Harris

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing…

— Tom Stoppard

Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find…

— Veronica Roth

I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the…

— Elizabeth Debicki

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little…

— Marya Hornbacher

Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements.…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs,…

— Louis Pasteur

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

— Rand Paul

My parents were music lovers and collectors. It was around.

— Boz Scaggs

Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die…

— M. F. K. Fisher