Parent Quotes · Page 39

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

— Vivien Leigh

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

— Alan Sugar

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

— Richard Whately

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

— Richard L. Evans

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

— Alison Moyet

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

— Tanya Tucker

We never know the love of a parent till we come parents ourselves.

— Anonymous

It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.

— Nick Hornby

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I…

— Val Kilmer

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what…

— Chris Sullivan

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in…

— Denise Mina

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill…

— Nancy Friday

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu…

— Aisha Tyler

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

— Alice Miller

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in…

— William Bennett

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

— Mallory Ortberg

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to…

— Immanuel Kant

When I was 14, a lot of people said, "She's such a good actress, she loves theater, she looks like a woman,…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a…

— Gabriel Macht

I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear…

— Kellie Pickler

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We…

— Crazy Horse

Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people.…

— Eric Hoffer

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake…

— LeBron James

It'll be taught in homes that it's not okay to make fun of a kid because he's gay or it's not okay…

— Lena Dunham

What keeps me up at night? Probably most, thinking about the future for my kids. It sounds kind of funny, but not…

— Leroy Chiao

In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the…

— James Franco

The only person on this ship who gets paid for what they do is you, Alix. The rest of us live off…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care…

— Chelsea Clinton

I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my…

— Condoleezza Rice

Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability…

— Ben Yagoda

If I didn't have my parents to think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have gone…

— Franz Kafka

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

— George Herbert

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

— Nicholas Sparks

Having a parent who served in the military has made me a better journalist.

— Harris Faulkner

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

— Daniel Webster

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

— Khalil Gibran

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

— Ninon de L'Enclos