Parent Quotes · Page 47

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

— Robert Breault

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

— John Milton

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

— Timothy Carey

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

— Samuel West

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

— Dhani Harrison

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

— Christopher Eccleston

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

— Allyson Felix

Being a parent is beautiful chaos and not at all like how you imagine.

— Kathryn Hahn

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before…

— Kehinde Wiley

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

— Marlee Matlin

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without…

— Timothy Carey

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a…

— Julie Delpy

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the…

— Bobby Sherman

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

— Kristin Hersh

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act…

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

As long as they're not still living with their parents, [dating younger men] could be viable.

— Sutton Foster

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness,…

— Guy Claxton

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to…

— Robert Breault

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without…

— Keke Palmer

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party…

— Jung Chang

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and…

— John Green

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is…

— Steven Pinker

When I taught school, we just had the school cafeteria; we didn't have machines or things for children to buy food from.…

— Laura Bush

It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That’s what they’d said countless times in the past. Of course,…

— Derek Landy

The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious…

— Terri E Apter

If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League…

— Michael Sandel

Hug and kiss whoever helped get you - financially, mentally, morally, emotionally - to this day. Parents, mentors, friends, teachers. If you're…

— Stephen King

International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same…

— Melissa Fay Greene

It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or…

— Patrick Steptoe

When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and…

— Naturi Naughton

When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching…

— Zachary Schomburg

Don't just parent your kids, develop them.

— Robin Sharma

No, I come for a hippy lifestyle, it's very open; my parents are both hippies.

— Shia LaBeouf

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

— Brian Austin Green

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

— Hakim

“To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves.”

— Hal Edward Runkel

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

— Tippi Hedren

There isn't a clear-cut way to be a parent. We will all make mistakes.

— Haylie Duff

This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

— Groucho Marx