Parent Quotes · Page 47

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

— Tori Amos

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

— Laura Schlessinger

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

— Joe Walsh

Anxiety in the parent creates anxiety in the kid.

— Steven Rinella

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents

— Maya Angelou

So many young people I know have lost one of their parents, life is so unfair.

— Anonymous

Losing a parent really makes you grow up fast.

— Anonymous

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

— Adnan

Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not…

— Sark

Every parent should thank God for the gift that is their children's health, and shower them with love.

— Joel McHale

I couldn't be a responsible enough parent if my kid was born with a new suit and a full-time job.

— Doug Stanhope

I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to…

— Ashley Madekwe

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

— Linda Vester

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

— Weili Dai

I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even…

— Drew Magary

The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad…

— Alan Bennett

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million…

— Dan Savage

Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still…

— James Nesbitt

Yeah, it's every parent's worst nightmare, to lose connection with your children, to not fully engage with them or have an understanding…

— Daniel Mays

I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when…

— Zendaya

Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that…

— Tim Berners-Lee

The amount of guilt you deal with as a parent is pretty profound. It's a constant balancing act. I'm an ambitious person,…

— Jim Gaffigan

Parental trust is extremely important in the guidance of adolescent children as they get further and further away from the direct supervision…

— Benjamin Spock

I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was…

— Miranda July

Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Children make you confront your own childhood. Which I think is common. Suddenly you're remembering your own parents as parents, not to…

— Sam Mendes

Max—you have a bigger mission than finding the flock's parents. Focus on helping the whole world, not just your friends. I held…

— James Patterson

Woman was given to man as an helpmeet. That complementary association is ideally portrayed in the eternal marriage of our first parents…

— Ezra Taft Benson

I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a…

— Daniel Olivas

This is my year of transition from what I'm calling the second phase of my life to the third phase of my…

— Ray Dalio

All boys and girls should have the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, no matter what part of the country they live…

— Michelle Bachelet

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

— Ben Jonson

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

— George Bernard Shaw

Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

— Abraham Lincoln

I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.

— Ryan Gosling

That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.

— Ivan Turgenev

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

— Roger L'Estrange

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

— Sydney J. Harris

When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

— Mason Cooley