Parent Quotes · Page 50

I feel like I'm that typical new parent that's nervous about everything.

— Lacey Chabert

“Your children have enough friends...they need a parent!”

— Robert Gioia

For any parent, all they want is for their child to be safe and cared for.

— Ncuti Gatwa

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

— Mignon McLaughlin

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

— Sarah Silverman

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

— Dennis Miller

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

— Victor Hugo

My parents always felt if I worked hard enough I could make any dream come true.

— Derek Jeter

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

— Amy Dickinson

Being a parent is too complicated and emotional a task for magical techniques and miracle cures.

— Ron Taffel

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it…

— Richelle Mead

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

— Frank Zappa

I want to teach parents how they can help their kids with death, grief, and losing things, the journey of life.

— James Van Praagh

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are…

— Henry B. Eyring

My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.

— Sargent Shriver

My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination.

— Shonda Rhimes

The best advice I can give to new parents is to realize immediately that your children will be unique individuals. Give them…

— Donald Trump

When I first made the team I didn't even know there was a national team. So to meit was all new. When…

— Kristine Lilly

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect.…

— Stockwell Day

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very…

— Amy Klobuchar

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with…

— Kristi Yamaguchi

In Community of Caring, we believe the quality of caring we give to our parents, to our brothers and sisters, to our…

— Eunice Kennedy Shriver

“Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to…

— Michael Ian Black

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to…

— Jerry Fodor

“The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents…

— Carlos Castaneda

I don't want to believe it - that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other,…

— Kim Brooks

We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for…

— Karen Marie Moning

I learned a lot about my parents, who were both teachers. I had known that my parents were very strongly in favor…

— Condoleezza Rice

When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural…

— Marianne Williamson

No matter how sheltered [my students] are, no matter how their parents try to do right by them, every single one of…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

— Thomas Yalden

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

— David Cook

We are the people are parents warned us against.

— Nicholas von Hoffman

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.

— John Ray

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

— Neil Gaiman

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

— Indra Nooyi

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

— Sheila Heti

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

— Robert Hunter