Parent Quotes · Page 15

“Education is the second food a parent can give a child.”

— Uzoma Nnadi

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

— Zachary Quinto

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

— Jaime Winstone

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

— Arabella Weir

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.

— David Sheff

If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

— Eda LeShan

My parents didn't really know one another.

— Christopher Durang

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

— Phil Knight

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to…

— Amy Chua

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

— Amy Chua

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement…

— Robert Breault

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

— Louis C. K

I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.

— Ken Jeong

Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about…

— Wanda Sykes

You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of…

— Tommy Bowden

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes…

— Benjamin Spock

It makes sense for societies to make education compulsory for children. Children are vulnerable. They can't make decisions. But the decisions can't…

— Noam Chomsky

It is very easy to conform to what your society or your parents and teachers tell you. That is a safe and…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the…

— Patrick Heusinger

I hope that if I ever disappear, people don't look for me based on the last websites I visited. Kind of an…

— Christian Finnegan

A mortal parent may appreciate, in some small way, the feelings of a loving Heavenly Father. When our children come to the…

— Henry B. Eyring

I have a robust plan to help make quality child care more affordable. It will include an exclusion from taxes of the…

— Donald Trump

We all can think of at least one kid who had great parents, a great family, and an all-around great childhood...who suddenly…

— Andy Andrews

We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities,…

— Winston Churchill

I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise…

— Tiger Woods

My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since…

— Hedi Slimane

Ask your child for information in a gentle, nonjudgmental way, with specific, clear questions. Instead of “How was your day?” try “What…

— Susan Cain

When I say that children should be told about sex, I do not mean that they should be told only the bare…

— Bertrand Russell

My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming…

— Salman Rushdie

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for…

— B. F. Skinner

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes…

— George Bernard Shaw

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

— Kate Fleetwood

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

— Gabriel Macht

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

— Gloria Estefan

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

— Bill Cosby

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

— Andrea Bocelli

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

— Anonymous

As a gay parent I must flee Russia or lose my children

— Masha Gessen