Parent Quotes · Page 55

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

— Anonymous

At work, you're replaceable... but as a parent, you're irreplaceable.

— Maria Shriver

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

— Gloria Swanson

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

— Hayden Panettiere

Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.

— Toni Morrison

If youre a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.

— Keith Emerson

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

— Jeffrey Archer

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

— Sadie Frost

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're…

— Kate Stoltzfus

“A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY”

— Roald Dahl

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents…

— Robert Breault

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

— Terry Bradshaw

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

— J. Arthur Thomson

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

— Salman Rushdie

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning -…

— Kelley Armstrong

To be a parent, especially to rock 'n' roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the…

— Ozzy Osbourne

Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family…

— Shere Hite

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents.…

— Alex Flinn

As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents,…

— Natalie Portman

I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such…

— Alison Eastwood

All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the…

— Richard Cumberland

Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures…

— Marlo Thomas

We lived in a suburb in Johannesburg, which is a massive city of about 8 million people, and my parents would drive…

— St. Lucia

There are many things children accept as "grown-up things" over when they have no control and for which they have no responsibility--for…

— Fred Rogers

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and…

— Anne Lamott

The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents…

— Hope Edelman

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these…

— Emma Watson

The parent who loves his child dearly but asks for nothing in return might qualify as a saint, but he will not…

— Selma Fraiberg

There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests.…

— Amy Chua

Our earth is like a child who has grown up without parents, having no one to guide her... Some have attempted to…

— William P. Young

Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something…

— Terri E Apter

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

— Nachman of Breslov

A parent that's upset or resentful is not going to be a great paren.

— Gloria Estefan

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

— Adwoa Aboah

I think my parents were high when they named me.

— Jolene Blalock

I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.

— Shannen Doherty

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?

— Will Ferrell

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

— Laura Benanti

Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.

— Bruce Bickford