Parent Quotes · Page 63

You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

— Hunter Tylo

If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

— Markus Zusak

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child is here to teach me as much about myself and how I…

— Shefali Tsabary

The best compliment we ever got on 'Clone Wars' was a parent coming up and telling me that it was something they…

— Dave Filoni

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve…

— Ken Osmond

In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans…

— Miranda July

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers…

— Mary Cheney

I think the way that I delivered my request for acting was undeniable, and I think that I was blessed enough to…

— Nina Arianda

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned…

— John Lone

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the…

— Lizz Winstead

My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll…

— Ayelet Waldman

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects…

— Henry Adams

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad,…

— Chelsea Clinton

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no…

— Bill Cosby

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so…

— April Winchell

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got…

— Carl Safina

The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a…

— Andreas Deja

Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A…

— Rajneesh

“Harshness, gruffness, and sternness are not effective in shaping a child’s will. Likewise, constant whacking and threatening and criticizing are destructive and…

— James C. Dobson

Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things…

— Richard Louv

I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in…

— Pico Iyer

I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover,…

— John Frederick Demartini

You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you…

— Rick Warren

As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents…

— Henry Winkler

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

— Gary Vaynerchuk

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

— Samuel Johnson

Im from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for…

— Alex Karpovsky

There is but one way to eliminate juvenile delinquency - that is by providing each child in America with competent parents.

— J. Edgar Hoover

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely…

— William P. Young

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

— Kirk Cameron

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

— Kofi Annan

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going…

— Larry Christenson

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the…

— Anonymous

We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.

— Mike Bickle

Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise.

— Wes Fesler

In Georgia, rednecks are just wolves in wolf clothing. In Detroit, you don't know who's a redneck until you go home and…

— Joseph Bruce

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting…

— Richard Russo

Love is love. Family is family. A family's sexuality does not define the wonderful parent that they can be for their children.

— Jo Frost

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

— Raquel Cepeda