Parent Quotes · Page 78

I think that once you become a parent, you cease to think of yourself as a hero or heroine.

— Amanda Foreman

Being a parent means enthusiastically clapping for any ordinary activity of your child.

— Anonymous

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

— Paul Weyrich

Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

— Steve Buscemi

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents…

— Bonnie Raitt

As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

— Melinda Gates

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

— Nasim Pedrad

My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of…

— Rose Byrne

The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones…

— Jami Gertz

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

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

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

— Kristen Stewart

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

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

— John Green

Parents who have fought fiercely for the rights of their much-loved Gay and Lesbian children should not have to worry that their…

— Christine Gregoire

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…

— James Madison

Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do…

— C. Sommerville

Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will…

— Paul Murray

The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only…

— Alain de Botton

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and…

— John Dewey

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you…

— Amy Poehler

The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine…

— George F. Richards

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough…

— Iain Duncan Smith

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that…

— Patti Smith

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

— Theodore Zeldin

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so…

— Harvey Weinstein

Let's not ask whether the parents are gay or heterosexual. The important thing is who the best parents are in each individual…

— Jens Spahn

My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Only those who have lost their parents will know what it is like. It is horrific, it is hard and it breaks…

— Steve Bruce

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for…

— Thom Yorke

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my…

— Bianca Jagger

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

— Anonymous

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

— William Herndon

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'...

— Julian Barnes

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.

— Sally Hawkins

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's…

— Lisa Bonet

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

— Tom Sturridge

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

— Laura Lippman