Parent Quotes · Page 3

My parents were Christian.

— Wyclef Jean

Next to God, thy parents.

— William Penn

Television is the third parent.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

— Herman Melville

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

— Ben Elton

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

Worrying is just part of being a parent.

— Coleen Nolan

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

— Robert Bly

I'm a parent now, so if I haven't matured, then my kid is in a lot of trouble.

— Everlast

“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.”

— John Steinbeck

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

— Ayelet Waldman

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

— Deborah Norville

“When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.”

— Marybeth Hicks

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

— Kid Rock

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in…

— Patricia Arquette

Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a…

— Ioan Gruffudd

My parents have always been very respectful of me so I’ve always been really respectful of them. My worst fear is to…

— Taylor Swift

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

— Jane Smiley

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

— Randy Pausch

Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no…

— Dan Wakefield

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick…

— Katie Dippold

The fact is I've been the kind of parent who has been there at every single sports day, my kids are achievers…

— Pooja Bedi

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced…

— Ellie Goulding

Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself.…

— Russell Simmons

He's always been tough on me, but I've had to figure out when he's being a coach and when he's being a…

— Jalen Brunson

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more…

— Horace

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive…

— Lynsey Addario

A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages…

— Bret Easton Ellis

We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are…

— Merle Shain

I was raised in a strict fundamentalist household, and I always say that gives you a muscle of belief. I want to…

— Barbara Hamby

I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We…

— Tullian Tchividjian

In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular…

— Marian Wright Edelman

My dad was a lovely guy. I had great parents. But he was a conservative shopkeeper, and he said, "Look, I don't…

— John Kapelos

Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God…

— Twyla Tharp

When I was 13 I told my dad I'd rather kill myself than do an ordinary job. He vaguely muttered something about…

— Noel Fielding

My schooling was very conservative. I went to Trinity School, and then to the Hill School, which is a boarding school, then…

— Oliver Stone

The system has a way of convincing people that because they live in the USA they are better off than all other…

— Michael Yates