Parent Quotes · Page 69

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

— Rachel Johnson

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

— Atom Egoyan

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to…

— Teri Hatcher

I was very much a mess, as a person. I'd come from a very turbulent teenage life, with parents who had broken…

— Marc Almond

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

— Jane Pauley

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

— Carl Jung

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

— Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that…

— Victor Garber

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

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

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

— Julie Anne Peters

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 were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in…

— Maria Monk

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

— Tim Burton

[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened…

— Shefali Tsabary

Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.…

— Warsan Shire

Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our…

— M. Russell Ballard

“Watoto hupenda vitu vinavyong’aa ambavyo havijatulia na vilivyopangiliwa vizuri. Hivyo ndivyo macho ya binadamu yalivyo: yana unyevu na yanaakisi mwanga, hayajatulia, na…

— Enock Maregesi

like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

My first car was kind of sad. My first car was when my parents had completely worn out their Toyota Corolla that…

— Ethan Hawke

I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a…

— Raj Chetty

Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When…

— Mary Pipher

This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down…

— John Green

“Even though you can't control outcomes for your child, you can parent unconditionally with all your heart.”

— Lisa Coyne

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

— Carolyn Hax

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

— Kevin Costner

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're…

— Bill Cosby

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's…

— Rosanne Cash

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

— John Lydon

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

— Kate DiCamillo

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in…

— Anonymous

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

— Julian Casablancas

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

— Anonymous

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to…

— Judy Davis

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of…

— Joshua Bell

“he was the single parent to an adorable little girl, making him the complete package. Only, for whatever reason, his package didn’t…

— Marina Adair

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of…

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I think it's the support from our parents. They want to see us succeed and do what we want to do.

— Malcolm Subban

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

— Jodi Picoult