Parent Quotes · Page 10

Change is the parent of progress.

— Steve Maraboli

My parents created their own war.

— Sean Wilsey

My parents had a difficult divorce.

— Christian Camargo

All parents experience the same problems.

— Bill Cosby

My parents are big Shakespeare fans.

— Ellie Kendrick

Nobody wants to be a bad parent.

— Carrie Preston

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Where are all the sour patch parents?

— Bo Burnham

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

— Daniel Webster

Having a parent who served in the military has made me a better journalist.

— Harris Faulkner

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

— Phil Knight

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

— Kate Fleetwood

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

— Gabriel Macht

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

— Gloria Estefan

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

— Bill Cosby

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A parent always tries to protect his child's world from the harsh reality of adulthood. - Busch”

— Richard Doetsch

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

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

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

— Sally Hawkins

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

— Laura Lippman

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set…

— Sydney J. Harris

If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to…

— Stephen Covey

My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb…

— James McBride

My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at…

— Dexter Fletcher

It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an…

— Peter Morgan

To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing.…

— Tara Brach

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent,…

— George Clooney

“When you parent, it’s crucial you realize you aren’t raising a “mini me,” but a spirit throbbing with its own signature. For…

— Shefali Tsabary

Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The best way of thinking of an attachment in my view, is to see it as the outcome of an interaction between…

— Sandra Scarr

Ideally, as parents we'd have unlimited energy, the ability to manage tricky emotions like fear and anger, vast stores of wisdom to…

— Gary L. Thomas

“To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind,…

— Rafe Esquith

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When Dawn looked at Vic, she saw Vic exactly as he wanted to be seen. Whereas Vic's parents couldn't help seeing who…

— David Levithan

Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to…

— Sam Mendes

Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held…

— James Patterson