Parent Quotes · Page 41

As an only child to be there when your parents say goodbye, that's tough.

— Noel Edmonds

Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.

— Stephen J. Cannell

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves,

— Henry Rollins

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

— Danny Strong

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

— Gail Sheehy

“Being a parent is joyful, but it's also haunted by the specter of loss.”

— Richard Beck

when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

— Vicki Baum

I think losing a child is unimaginable. It's every person's worst nightmare. It's unimaginably difficult. It shakes your faith in the world.…

— Natalie Portman

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

— Dennis Prager

Both of my parents got to see me host Carson, thank God. That's all anyone wants: to have their parents see they're…

— Joan Rivers

“When life deals you a crap hand in the parent department, the best way to thumb your nose at fate was to…

— Roxy Mews

Most people think that aging is genetic and yet if your parents lived to age 80+ that will add three years to…

— Deepak Chopra

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have…

— Rick Nielsen

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given…

— Dwight Gooden

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to…

— Graham Norton

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know…

— Anonymous

I come from somewhere and from specific black people in the South, including my parents, who built our first school, and rebuilt…

— Alice Walker

I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very…

— Lemar

Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and…

— Wil Wheaton

I always wanted to be acting but...my parents (who are Cambodian) wanted me to be something else with more stability, like a…

— Ellen Wong

I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just…

— Aline Brosh McKenna

My parents taught me that I could do anything I wanted and I have always believed it to be true. Add a…

— Pete Goss

My parents survived the Great Depression and brought me up to live within my means, save some for tomorrow, share and don't…

— David Suzuki

Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a…

— Ken Ludwig

To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness,…

— Denis Diderot

I had a very marginal understanding of what faith in God was growing up because, although I went to a Catholic school,…

— Patricia Mauceri

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children…

— Orson Scott Card

God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible…

— Ben Zobrist

I called my mother immediately to inform her that she was a bad parent. "I can't believe you let us watch this.…

— Sloane Crosley

You should form your own opinions, and I think that's why social media is good because it's an alternative source of information…

— Ellie Rowsell

Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose…

— J. K. Rowling

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

— John Churton Collins

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

— Samuel Johnson

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

— Stephen King

My parents did not have any interest in music.

— Maurice Jarre

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

— Dirk Nowitzki

It's not easy to be a good or wise parent. You do the best you can.

— Peter Hedges

As a parent, you worry about kids' safety and the world they're living in.

— Baron Davis

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

— Dan Quayle