Parent Quotes · Page 39

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

— Alison Brie

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

— Ellie Goulding

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

— Sydney J. Harris

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

— Aharon Appelfeld

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

— Norman Wisdom

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

— Martha Reeves

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

— Taylor Hanson

“Blessed your mum, who carried you in a womb for nine months.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

— Sherman Alexie

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Why should one parent have all the rights (including abandoning the child) and the other have all the responsibility?

— Anonymous

My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids.

— Ross W. Greene

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second…

— Bill Nye

Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's…

— Susan Orlean

Anyone who grows up with parents who are very influential, there are cases where people run away from that if they have…

— Thurston Moore

He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked…

— Darynda Jones

Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father; parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of…

— Warren Farrell

It is true that my parents were worried because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a doctor.…

— Albert Einstein

[Drug] Addiction is awful, the worst if it is your kid. Plenty of loving parents who did everything "right" find themselves with…

— Roxanne Roberts

I learned to play piano on my own and my parents thought "Oh it would be a good thing for you take…

— Colin Munroe

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that…

— Anonymous

“I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years…

— Nicole Krauss

It was a natural path for me, being an artist. Both my parents were artists. I was surrounded by it and I…

— Arik Roper

If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring…

— Oren Lyons

I was told 20% of the kids in Kosovo didn't know where their parents were. This is a dreadful problem. A woman…

— James Wolfensohn

Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking…

— Kelly Link

The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan to make lots of mistakes…

— Brené Brown

My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me.…

— China Mieville

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'…

— Alice Miller

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional…

— Fred Rogers

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no…

— Douglas Coupland

Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

— Jon Kabat

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

— January Jones

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

— Anonymous

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

— Jason Diamond

The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

— Vera Farmiga

Every child deserves a parent, but not every parent deserves a child

— Anonymous

“Can-do" is the parent of "Have-done". No passion, no production!”

— Israelmore Ayivor