Parent Quotes · Page 122

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so…

— Hope Solo

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

— Isocrates

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough…

— Anonymous

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you…

— Aasif Mandvi

My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because…

— Channing Tatum

My parents owned a hair salon, so I learned a few tricks there. I can cut people's hair - if they let…

— Penelope Cruz

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from…

— Gwen Stefani

“You know you have succeeded as a parent when you find yourself taking advice from your children.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

Every piece of remotely responsible research that has been done in the last 20 years on this issue has shown there is…

— Mary Cheney

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole…

— Vincent Gallo

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for…

— Patti Davis

Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk…

— Michelle Obama

It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic…

— Sherry Turkle

You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a…

— Cassandra Clare

Thank god, I can't sing because that would be a lot of pressure. But yeah, it's nice doing something different and that's…

— Eve Hewson

Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation…

— Erasmus Darwin

Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except…

— James P. Comer

In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching…

— Virginia Satir

Kids don't say, "Wait." They say, "Wait up, hey wait up!" Because when you're little, your life is up. The future is…

— Jerry Seinfeld

Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to…

— Emma Donoghue

“[THE DAILY BREATH] Do you remember the first day of school, when your mom and dad gave you the new uniform, the…

— Dragos Bratasanu

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

— Amy Vanderbilt

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

— Gena Rowlands

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

— Mick Foley

“Nothing in the world could ever compare to the feeling of becoming a parent, no amount of money or power.”

— Jazmyne

I don't have children, but I imagine if parents are really pushed on the subject, they probably have favorite children.

— Moby

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

— Alexa Vega

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

— Robert Winston

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can…

— Mary Pipher

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

— Andrew Garfield

“She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He…

— N.K. Jemisin

I want to be the perfect child. I owe so much to my parents and the way I was brought up.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

— William Godwin

When I made my first album, there was no indication that anybody other than my parents were going to buy it.

— Trisha Yearwood

Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Becoming wealthy is not a matter of how much you earn, who your parents are, or what you do.. it is a…

— Noel Whittaker