Parent Quotes · Page 50

Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

— Bart Decrem

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

— Zachery Ty Bryan

“The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I'm afraid.”

— Charles Dickens

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

— Maya Angelou

I am doing everything I can to be a great parent.

— Nadya Suleman

It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

— Malala Yousafzai

My parents just always taught me to be reasonable.

— Caroline Wozniacki

When you become a parent, obviously it changes your life in so many ways.

— Jessica McDonald

Anyone can have a child and call themselves a parent. a real parent is someone who puts that child above their own…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else…

— James E. Faust

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

— Anne Rice

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other…

— Essie Davis

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't…

— Ben Stiller

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in…

— Lucy Freeman

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we…

— John F. Kerry

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or…

— Deepika Padukone

I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I…

— Jason Reitman

I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in…

— Nasim Pedrad

Parents provoke their children to anger by not practicing biblical love, not considering their children as more important than themselves, and not…

— John C. Broger

I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13…

— Anonymous

There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things.…

— Gary Oldman

To me 'they lived happily ever after' means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has…

— Kristen Stewart

The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been…

— John Green

What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find…

— Yasmine Galenorn

Everyone talks about freedom. All around the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom?…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think…

— Maggie Stiefvater

A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull…

— Emmet Fox

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their…

— Barack Obama

Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The…

— Alexander Lowen

It's what [Hillary Clinton] embodied and what the Clinton mystique was as it was passed down from parents to children and so…

— Rush Limbaugh

There is great power in prayer. I strongly encourage personal and family prayer, which are important in building strong families. I'm wondering…

— M. Russell Ballard

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because…

— Bertrand Russell

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

— Nadia Comaneci

Every parent wants their child to do better than they do.

— Steve Doocy

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

— George Clooney

When you're a parent, you're automatically the most uncool person that exists.

— Mark Consuelos

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

— Amy Chua

And I would never set myself out to be the best parent or the greatest man.

— Jeremy Kyle

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

— Josh Hartnett