Parent Quotes · Page 107

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

— Bill Walton

“In the Narcisstic parent’s eyes, they do no wrong nor do they feel they should be held accountable for the bad and…

— Katherine Childress

There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

— Daniel Handler

“Don't you see?" she says. "I want your life to be better than mine. That's all any parent wants.”

— Katie Crouch

When you feel your child truly loves you back, it makes you wish you had kissed your parents more.

— Carol Ann Susi

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

— Francois Arnaud

My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

— Otto Schily

Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as…

— Charlotte Mason

Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said,…

— Rita Rudner

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent…

— David Popenoe

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In…

— Alan Bennett

When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next year or even next week.…

— John C. McGinley

Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up…

— Rajneesh

There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could…

— Henry Lloyd-Hughes

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with…

— Mindy Kaling

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is…

— Anne Lamott

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous;…

— Confucius

What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You…

— Joy Behar

I knew no one in this business, and the only acting I'd ever done was in a first-grade play. I understood some…

— Idara Victor

My son's dad is committed, and involved, and amazing. We're actually really good friends. But I think it's dangerous to speak negatively…

— Nia Long

Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your future, listen,…

— James P. Comer

The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. I have nothing against private schools, parochial schools and home…

— Howard Dean

It was life under the Soviet system - we were struggling with every big problem. Publicly, my parents had to queue up…

— Jaak Kilmi

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

— Edward Dyer

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think…

— Frank Shorter

Kollywood is my parent film industry. It was here that I was born as an actress and grew as an artist.

— Asin

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a…

— Brian Blessed

I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in…

— George W. Bush

When you have children, you start to play with them and you mirror yourself. You see your parents in yourself. It's all…

— Jeppe Hein

And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But…

— Ken Wilber

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember…

— Umberto Eco

Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that…

— Cameron Esposito

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

— Shaquille O'Neal

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

— Keith Murray

Being a teenage mum and a single parent hasn't been easy but I wouldn't change it for the world.

— Stacey Solomon

The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or…

— Siddharth Katragadda

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in…

— Warwick Davis

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy

It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual…

— Paul Weyrich