Parent Quotes · Page 100

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said.…

— Anonymous

When I speak to kids I tell them, 'Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're…

— Charles Barkley

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what…

— George Clinton

I don't want to rip families apart. I don't want to be sending parents away from children.

— Hillary Clinton

My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get…

— Vince Carter

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening…

— Perry Brass

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the…

— Kate Winslet

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to…

— Aasif Mandvi

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your…

— Hugh Hefner

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew…

— Samantha Barks

You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents…

— Michael Ian Black

I tell young people that people aren't just going to flock to you as your mentors. You have to seek them out.…

— Judith Jamison

We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly…

— Benjamin Carson

I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools…

— Jon Scieszka

Parents don't particularly care whether it's early infantile autism or whatever label the clinicians have put on it. All they want is…

— Darold Treffert

Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low…

— Ishmael Reed

Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of…

— John A. Stormer

Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate - what he has to become.…

— Rajneesh

We have to learn to remind the other parents who think we're being careless when we loosen our grip that we are…

— Lenore Skenazy

I grew up in a family of educators - my dad was a professor, my mom was a high school grammar and…

— Soledad O'Brien

We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it…I suspect that deep inthe memory…

— Selma Fraiberg

When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions…

— Steve Gaynor

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and…

— Selena

I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set

— Ranbir Kapoor

When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let…

— Jeff Foxworthy

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,

— Woody Allen

I give this advice to every parent I meet, and it's something I have believed ever since I was young - never…

— Shatrughan Sinha

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents…

— Lily Rabe

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

— Camryn Manheim

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

— Diane Keaton

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

— John Green

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

— Jack Kirby

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

— Bill Vaughan

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped…

— Charlaine Harris

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want,…

— Jennifer Lawrence

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

— Albert Einstein

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose…

— Harold S. Kushner