Parent Quotes · Page 146

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

— Lena Dunham

“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked…

— Khaled Hosseini

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

— Al Goldstein

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

— Jayson Tatum

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me…

— Bruce Springsteen

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.

— Gaspar Noe

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

— Luke Perry

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to…

— Immanuel Kant

I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a…

— Gabriel Macht

When I was 14, a lot of people said, "She's such a good actress, she loves theater, she looks like a woman,…

— Emily Ratajkowski

I collaborated with fellow cat lover and designer Geren Ford to create a sweater that we hope any cat parent would wear…

— Kellie Pickler

I have the most amazing and supportive family. My parents always encouraged us to aim high and follow our dreams. They instilled…

— Jamie Eason

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too…

— Amy Chua

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything.…

— E. M. Forster

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that…

— Ally Condie

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

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

So far it has been assumed that the only pregnancies which are aborted are accidental ones and the only foetuses destroyed those…

— Germaine Greer

Next-door a baker's apprentice with his wife, an employee in a printing-shop, she has inflammation of the ovaries. Wonder what those two…

— Alfred Doblin

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are…

— Dar Williams

One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't…

— Sarah Steele

“I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be…

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

— Anonymous

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are…

— Rajneesh

As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and…

— Roger E. Olson

I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I…

— Maurice Sendak

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

— Max Lucado

As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read,…

— Elfriede Jelinek

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them…

— Anonymous

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything…

— Jo Brand

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have…

— Boyd K. Packer

If you haven't already told your kids 'don't fellate the president' then you're probably a bad parent.

— Scott Adams

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

— Joseph Addison

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a…

— Jonathan Bennett

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

— Samuel Johnson

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

— David Sheff

A message to parents who think legalizing weed will make their kids want to try it: they will anyway.

— Doug Benson

It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

— James Patterson