Parent Quotes · Page 35

What God is to the world, parents are to their children.

— Philo

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

— Oswald Chambers

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

— Ayelet Waldman

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

— Deborah Norville

I'm a parent now, so if I haven't matured, then my kid is in a lot of trouble.

— Everlast

“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.”

— John Steinbeck

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

— Lou Reed

When you lose your children, there is nothing worse than that in the world.

— Mack Brown

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

— Albert Einstein

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped…

— Charlaine Harris

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want,…

— Jennifer Lawrence

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to…

— Rachel Carson

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

— J. C. Ryle

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

— Walt Disney

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

— Richard Louv

belated maternity has had its compensations; small children have a habit of conferring persistent youth upon their parents, and by their eager…

— Vera Brittain

In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time…

— Nikki Reed

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day.…

— Angel Olsen

So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting.…

— Brendan Gleeson

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better…

— Billy Graham

Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed…

— Ogden Nash

It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools…

— Elizabeth Warren

Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the…

— Selma Fraiberg

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law…

— George Bernard Shaw

I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short…

— Anne Lamott

The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the…

— Germaine Greer

My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child,…

— Wilder Penfield

Early on, before rock 'n' roll, I listened to big band music - anything that came over the radio - and music…

— Bob Dylan

People make their life really hard. It was as simple as this: My parents went to church. My grandfather was a bishop.…

— Fetty Wap

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

— Alice Sebold

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

— Robert Bly

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

— Dabo Swinney

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

— Rumer Willis

My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.

— Charlie Day

My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.

— Cam Newton

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

— Woody Allen

Being a parent means loving your children , more than you've ever loved yourself.

— Troy Buckner