Parent Quotes · Page 85

I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

— Richelle Mead

Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't…

— Alyssa Milano

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

— Jodi Picoult

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a…

— Barry Hannah

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find…

— Joan Cusack

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over -…

— Johnny Galecki

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

— Bill Cosby

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

— Dominic Holland

The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their…

— Carl Honore

Parent partnership is not about giving in to the loudest voices or political grandstanding. It's about welcoming the voices of all families,…

— Miguel Cardona

We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I…

— Pam Brown

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now…

— Viktor E. Frankl

This kind of thinking, he found, is not the way to make one's self popular with other birds. Even his parents were…

— Richard Bach

My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player…

— Brian J. White

My parents believed in education and economic security, and I thank them for it. Because I think that's part of what's made…

— Helen Mirren

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack…

— Hugh Hefner

When you’re young, your world is pretty limited. My parents, my family, my church dominated my world. And because Birmingham was so…

— Condoleezza Rice

There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause…

— Henry Franklin Floyd

INTROVERTS are especially vulnerable to challenges like marital tension, a parent’s death, or abuse. They’re more likely than their peers to react…

— Susan Cain

Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at…

— Anonymous

On the whole, we're a murderous race. According to Genesis, it took as few as four people to make the planet too…

— Jim Butcher

We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease,…

— John Conyers

The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a…

— Fred Rogers

My parents inspired me by their example. They both grew up in the Depression, and both of them had to quit school…

— Joyce Carol Oates

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

— Alix Kates Shulman

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were…

— Jonathan Tropper

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

— Alan Chambers

Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

— Daniel Tosh

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you…

— Corbin Bernsen

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from…

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am…

— Nastia Liukin

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

— Sandra Bullock

I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents…

— Erin Heatherton

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

— Jennifer Hudson

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

— Nicholas Sparks

The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose…

— Ilyasah Shabazz

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

— Anonymous

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one…

— Emma Donoghue

I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they…

— Rashida Jones

Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.

— Laurie David