Parent Quotes · Page 26

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

— Daniel Tosh

Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.

— Mona Simpson

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

— David Copperfield

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

— Evan Esar

I never wanted anything to happen to my parents, but a hero needs an origin story.

— Joey Comeau

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

— Polixeni Papapetrou

My brother is gay and my parents don't care, as long as he marries a doctor.

— Elayne Boosler

I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

— Bill Cosby

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good…

— Minnie Driver

The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed.

— Anonymous

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

— Anonymous

Though I'm a very broad-minded girl, I don't think any parent would appreciate their daughter stripping on-screen.

— Sana Khan

My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan…

— Thomas Friedman

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now…

— Martha Quinn

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

— Wayne Dyer

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever…

— Helen Mirren

My children grew up with one Western parent. My husband doesn't believe in raising his voice with the kids and we don't…

— Amy Chua

I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part…

— Ana Ortiz

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name.…

— Mary Crosby

When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that…

— Gloria Steinem

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys…

— Steve Harvey

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to…

— Viola Davis

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible…

— Theodor Reik

...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started…

— Lauren Oliver

The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a…

— Andreas Deja

[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got…

— Carl Safina

When I was 12 years old, I was just horrible. My parents were ashamed to watch my matches. I would play on…

— Roger Federer

I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning…

— William J. Clinton

‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There…

— Umera Ahmed

You are not barred from attaining greatness by heredity. No matter who or what your ancestors may have been or how unlearned…

— Wallace D. Wattles

To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the…

— Stephen Reinhardt

There are a lot of voices inside of us. We have the voices of our parents, our grandparents, our society, our bosses,…

— Echo Bodine

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

— Ivan Lendl

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

— Sylvia Earle

There's no winning arguments with your parents

— Wendelin Van Draanen

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

— Dave Barry

Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.

— Pope Francis

Im so ahead of my time my parents havent met yet

— Big L

“Mum always says the right thing. She always makes everything better.”

— Sophie Kinsella

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

— Anonymous