Parent Quotes · Page 36

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

— Plato

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

— Ross Perot

“Could we betray our parents by going back to them?”

— Karen Russell

No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.

— Billie Joe Armstrong

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

— Mariel Zagunis

My parents are actually very hip. They're way hipper than me.

— Peter Vack

Being a younger parent doesn't prevent tragedy.

— Amanda Redman

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

— Bill Fitch

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

— Nick Bostrom

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping…

— Arne Duncan

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

— Nancy Gibbs

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes,…

— Cassandra Clare

Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed…

— Danica McKellar

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it…

— Laurence Steinberg

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator…

— Trey Parker

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps…

— Cormac McCarthy

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything.…

— E. M. Forster

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too…

— Amy Chua

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that…

— Ally Condie

When a child’s life is full of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures, people and places, he will learn. When he feels safe…

— Sandra Dodd

The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and…

— John C. Maxwell

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of…

— Anonymous

I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and…

— Lemon Andersen

The question is grateful to who? You would think grateful to Allah, but Allah didn’t mention Himself. So it could be grateful…

— Nouman Ali Khan

[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects…

— Aisha Hinds

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing…

— Margaret Atwood

It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of…

— Warren Farrell

I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my…

— Condoleezza Rice

Heaven and happiness do not exist. That is your parents’ way to justify the crime of having brought you into this world.…

— Fernando Vallejo

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me…

— Bertrand Russell

We, as parents, must understand the serious responsibility that we have in inculcating love for God in the hearts of children. If…

— Radhanath Swami

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

— David Copperfield

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

— Vinnie Jones

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

— Megan Gallagher

Having one child makes you a parent; having two youare referee

— David Frost

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

— Robert D. Putnam

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

— Honore de Balzac

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

— Anonymous