Parent Quotes · Page 16

Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.

— Josh McDowell

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

— Bette Davis

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

— Shannon Fife

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

— J. K. Rowling

My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.

— Graham Phillips

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.

— Mike D

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

— Margaret Spellings

Jon is the consistent parent. No means no. Whereas Elsie can play me like a fiddle.

— Lucy Beaumont

My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never…

— Amy Childs

The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive.

— Chelsea Handler

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

— Emma Goldman

My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose,…

— Josh Duhamel

...I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness...

— Stephen King

While there's plenty to be said for drive and talent, it was my parents' support that started me on the path that…

— Tichina Arnold

I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid,…

— Mindy Kaling

My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect,…

— John Gimlette

Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight…

— John Waters

It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education…

— Bernie Siegel

I believe in the support of the public school as one of the cornerstones of American liberty. I believe in the right…

— Al Smith

I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I…

— Karan Johar

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to…

— Ernest Istook

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they…

— Carrie Fisher

I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth…

— Aristotle

I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead…

— Judith M Bardwick

That’s not the only reason I’m stayin’, chica. I can’t leave you any more than I could walk out that door right…

— Simone Elkeles

I love conversations with kids in the meet and greet lines — little people with little voices! I love babies. Someday I…

— Taylor Swift

Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his…

— Edward Gibbon

“No parent/home/child/teacher/school has an all-round 100 percent wholeness. We all have limitations and problems. But I must never think it is all…

— Susan Schaeffer Macaulay

You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that…

— John Green

Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the…

— Adele Faber

I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents…

— Mari Boine

If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

— Anonymous

When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

— Rupert Everett

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

— Wendy Liebman

Sometimes there is one parent who is stronger than the other one.

— Kevin McCarty

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

— Flavor Flav

My parents' divorce settlement involved a bar tab.

— Christopher Titus