Parent Quotes · Page 8

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me.

— Tippi Hedren

Our parents were musicians.

— Caroline Corr

Write as if your parents are dead.

— Anne Lamott

Both my parents were big readers.

— Christopher Bollen

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

— Akhil Sharma

Love doesn't care who your parents are.

— Rumer Willis

My parents were hippies.

— Balthazar Getty

We live inside our parents' backstory.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

— Roberto Benigni

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

— Peter Hedges

My parents did not have any interest in music.

— Maurice Jarre

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

— Samuel Johnson

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

— Stephen King

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

— John Churton Collins

“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”

— Richard Beck

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

— Gail Sheehy

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

— Gore Verbinski

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

— Arna Bontemps

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right.…

— Richard Pryor

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law.

— Maxine Hong Kingston

My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.

— Joey Badass

They remember when their parents went out there, had picnics on the Beck's Mill grounds. It was the nostalgia of it.

— Larry Nelson

Parenting means, being there, as a parent, setting an example for how you would want them to live...

— Anonymous

The most transgressive, the most taboo, the darkest act that could happen is a parent killing their own child.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge…

— Frank Abagnale

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their…

— Jung Chang

When a child has a dream and a parent says, "It's not financially feasible; you can't make a living at that; don't…

— Esther Hicks

A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering…

— Bruno Bettelheim

I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a…

— Linda Grant

I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that…

— Paul Watson

I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good…

— Godfrey

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that…

— Mother Teresa

We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going…

— Alison Gopnik

You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I…

— Tracy Letts

“Dawn's Spawn: Cause and Effect Criticizing the next generation reflects on us. We hold the power to carve out good citizens who…

— Kamil Ali

Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That’s what they’d said countless times in the past. Of course,…

— Derek Landy

The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious…

— Terri E Apter

If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League…

— Michael Sandel

[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or…

— Bruce Springsteen

Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse?…

— Miriam