Parent Quotes · Page 128

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible…

— Edward Gibbon

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

— James Vincent McMorrow

I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

— Richelle Mead

I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there.

— Taylor Swift

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

— Jodi Picoult

Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't…

— Alyssa Milano

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over -…

— Johnny Galecki

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find…

— Joan Cusack

Many children fully realize their parents see them as astonishing creatures and incorporate that into their daily presentations. That is, they throw…

— Bill O'Reilly

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The…

— Ted Nugent

I always thought I'd make a good parent, but I was single and led a solitary life for many, many years. Then…

— Neil Patrick Harris

The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is…

— D. H. Lawrence

We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't…

— Twiggy

We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have to work. However, there are an important…

— Shakira

Aishwarya, my parent's daughter, has been brought up with enough values inculcated where I will use my discretion in my choices. At…

— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would…

— Ellen Muth

My view is different from this, only to the extent that if a decision is taken, by the parents and doctors, that…

— Peter Singer

As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them…

— Dolph Lundgren

My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and…

— Raul Julia

When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in…

— Aisha Tyler

One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust…

— Charles Dickens

Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in…

— Huey Long

If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your…

— Aaron Gillespie

I really put the fear of God into my son, because children are such sponges. The earlier you teach them the law…

— Cherie Currie

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a…

— Barry Hannah

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

— Dominic Holland

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

— Alix Kates Shulman

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

— Bill Cosby

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you…

— Corbin Bernsen

Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of.

— Daniel Tosh

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

— Sandra Bullock

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am…

— Nastia Liukin

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from…

— B.J. The Chicago Kid

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were…

— Jonathan Tropper

I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents.

— Alan Chambers

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

— Nicholas Sparks

I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents…

— Erin Heatherton

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

— Jennifer Hudson

When I'm around the kids I feel like I act the most grown-up just because you're supposed to. And I say things,…

— Adam Sandler

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience…

— Havelock Ellis