Parent Quotes · Page 14

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

— Mariel Zagunis

Being a parent means loving your children , more than you've ever loved yourself.

— Troy Buckner

I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.

— Woody Allen

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

— Plato

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

— Adam Sandler

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

— Honore de Balzac

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

— Anonymous

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child

— Susan Smith

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your…

— Kal Penn

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can…

— Nikki Sixx

Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still…

— Max Irons

I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older…

— Dave Barry

You take responsibility for your children but you're not always the taxi driver and that doesn't make you a bad parent.

— Karren Brady

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teaches you…

— Nicholas Sparks

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I am a community activist, philanthropist, breast cancer survivor, advocate and founder and board chair of the Thelma D. Jones Breast Cancer…

— Thelma Jones

Although my grandmother was a strict parent and abided my grandfather's kosher diet, as a Nana, she had grown away from religion…

— Josh Gondelman

If you live with a single parent, you don't see compromise. You witness a grown person living in a world where they…

— Chris Rock

I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical…

— William J. Clinton

Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent…

— Siri Hustvedt

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't…

— Robert Breault

Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out…

— Ray Lewis

But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child…

— Dave Barry

I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and…

— Dakota Fanning

[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. They call the kids gorgeous…

— Emma Donoghue

Being pregnant taught me how to be a better writer. It was a lesson in negative capability and surrendering to necessity. Suddenly,…

— Robin Beth Schaer

"Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not…

— Maya Angelou

Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who…

— Mother Teresa

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with…

— James Howell

The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,…

— Edward Gibbon

And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled…

— Alexander McCall Smith

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

— Sargent Shriver

I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.

— Megan Gallagher

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

— Vinnie Jones

Having one child makes you a parent; having two youare referee

— David Frost

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

— Robert D. Putnam

Being a parent for me means care, love, affection and providing safety.

— Nikitin Dheer

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

— Phillips Brooks

I'm having a difficult time killing my parents

— T. J. Miller