Parent Quotes · Page 48

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

— Tea Leoni

You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.

— Mayim Bialik

I don't get to make many choices in my life as a single parent.

— Phil Elverum

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

— Karen Duffy

I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.

— Jenna Bush

I exercise; I have a big career. I'm a parent, and I run a music school.

— Flea

“A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

— M. Russell Ballard

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

— John Updike

“God put the wiggle in children and our job as parent-educators is to work with it, not take it out of them.”

— Pamela Read Von Gohren

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

— Nellie McKay

I don't think any child could really be happy between five and eight away from their parents

— Tina Louise

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

— Bob Beauprez

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

— Max Lucado

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see…

— Joe Manchin

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

— Marya Hornbacher

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are…

— Bertrand Russell

I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did…

— Robert Barry

While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is…

— John Clare

My parents loved me, and I think they realized that I was probably not going to have a normal 9-to-5 job. For…

— Jason Wu

My parents will be sad for a while, and they may even blame themselves, the way they do now. Eventually they'll come…

— Julie Anne Peters

Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run…

— John August

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to…

— Irwin Edman

I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No…

— Tim Burton

The mere existence of an additional child or children in the family could signify Less. Less time alone with parents. Less attention…

— Adele Faber

I felt the calling to serve my country. My parents came to the United States from Mexico and Colombia, and this country…

— Ruben Gallego

When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear…

— Lucas Neff

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know…

— Jodie Foster

I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then…

— Lloyd Jones

“My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life…

— Laura Kinsale

For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something…

— Jim Butcher

To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact,…

— Frank Iero

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.

— Anonymous

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

— Robert Winston

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't want to be that parent yelling all the time.

— Michelle Buteau

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

— James Patterson

I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.

— Karl Pilkington

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

— Isabelle Huppert

What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

— Stephanie Perkins