Parent Quotes · Page 9

We are the buffoons of our children.

— Pietro Aretino

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

— Sir Fulke Greville

My family, my parents are hippies.

— Shia LaBeouf

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

— Katey Sagal

There's never been a parent in my life.

— Shia LaBeouf

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

— James Anthony Froude

Tape record your parents' laughter

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

My parents could not be more Italian.

— Edoardo Ponti

“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

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

— Vicki Baum

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

— Danny Strong

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves,

— Henry Rollins

As an only child to be there when your parents say goodbye, that's tough.

— Noel Edmonds

Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.

— Stephen J. Cannell

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 had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

— Lucile Hadzihalilovic

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in…

— John Flavel

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say…

— Rupert Penry-Jones

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

— Jesse Helms

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in…

— Muhtar Kent

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

You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up.…

— Steve Almond

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my…

— Mindy Kaling

Some people say that parents don't matter, and that's not true at all. The irony is that we pay attention to all…

— Alison Gopnik

Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what…

— Wayne White

By learning to yield to the loving authority... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which…

— James Dobson

[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

I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But…

— Lionel Shriver

We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew…

— Stephen Kendrick

My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was…

— Harvey Pekar

We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. Maybe…

— Simon Helberg

I believe in God. Nobody made me believe; I don't think you can or should try to force someone to believe something.…

— Bethany Hamilton

Both of my parents are music teachers. My mother owns the school that I taught in. My brothers and sisters are musicans.…

— Randy Rhoads