Parent Quotes · Page 34

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

— Michael Josephson

Parents were never right about anything --- until I became a parent

— Rebecca Smith

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Love is the chain whereby to lock a child to its parent.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The best gifts a parent could give to their child are love, care, and safety.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

— David O. McKay

It's a different kind of grief when you lose a parent.

— Luke Campbell

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

— Jeffrey Hunter

No one tells you how hard being a parent is! We could have had a warning! It is literally the hardest thing…

— Declan Donnelly

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

— Angela Carter

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

— Vincent Cassel

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do…

— Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

— Jenna Ushkowitz

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

— Pope Francis

Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a…

— Roger Federer

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can…

— Sara Sheridan

My parents played by parents, in the second season [of Suits]. We had a Skype scene and they were my real parents.…

— Rick Hoffman

There's a lot of, unfortunately, a lot of divorced families. I come from a divorced family... and you have parents meet someone…

— Selena Gomez

There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group…

— Melissa Fay Greene

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to…

— Brian Blessed

And some people say Jesus wasn't Jewish. Of COURSE he was Jewish! 30 years old, single, lives with his parents, come on!…

— Robin Williams

Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our…

— Jared Diamond

Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents,…

— Andre Vltchek

We kind of know that food is necessary to survive. But our ways of connecting with food have been, in many ways,…

— Raj Patel

The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.…

— Pearl S. Buck

I've been playing videogames since before my career in this business, but what happened is several videogame companies were recruiting students back…

— Yoko Shimomura

Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them…

— Anne Cassidy

By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,…

— Margaret Sanger

It's hard for us sophisticates to believe, but the people my parents worked for were good people. They were socialists of the…

— Lore Segal

We may not always recognize it, but government plays a bigger role in our lives than any other single person or institution.…

— Harry Browne

I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

— Jason Earles

Treat your old parents as you would like to be treated by your children later.

— Jose Rizal

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

— Malachy McCourt

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

— Keira Knightley

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

— Ambrose Bierce

“An involved parent is already a superhero.”

— Linda Armstrong

I wasn't a pushy parent - you have to let children be who they want to be.

— Penny Junor

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

— Horace