Parent Quotes · Page 97

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

— James Dyson

Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and…

— Jillian Hervey

Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young…

— Serinda Swan

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

— Jill Sobule

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

— Lee Unkrich

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

— George Herbert

What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.

— Rodney Dangerfield

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

— Allan Bloom

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view…

— J. K. Rowling

...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was…

— Roger McGuinn

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling…

— Greta Scacchi

Inherited hatred (i.e. hatred your parents schooled you in) is not only stupid, it is destructive - why make your only driving…

— Lemmy Kilmister

That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents…

— Toby Stephens

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid.…

— John Green

Remember, one in every five people in America goes hungry and there are certainly a whole lot of folks who are getting…

— Andrew Zimmern

I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it…

— Andrew Hollander

I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy,…

— Shia LaBeouf

God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who…

— David Shibley

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring…

— Anonymous

In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which…

— Nathaniel Branden

“deathAloneness has been my constant companion in life. I lost early the people that I loved: first when my young and unmarried…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus…

— Jerry Rice

When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out.…

— Christina Aguilera

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as…

— Negash Ali

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

— Lester Frank Ward

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no…

— Alexa Ray Joel

I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole…

— Christine Lakin

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

— Leon Kass

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking…

— Stephen King

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

— George Bernard Shaw

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown…

— Aleksa Palladino

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

— Dennis Prager

Being a parent is one of the hardest jobs there is. It's one of the greatest things, too, but it's also probably…

— Timothy B. Schmit

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child,…

— Lorde

As a mum, it's really hard when someone else tells off your kids because it also feels like you're being told off…

— Coleen Nolan

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

— Arne Duncan

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

— Ron Taffel

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

— Amy Dickinson