Parent Quotes · Page 53

I think every parent was horrified at what happened in Newtown, Conn.

— Ted Cruz

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

— Thorsten Heins

Being a parent changes you in life. I am responsible now.

— Emma Hayes

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

— Maya Harris

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

— Taylor Lautner

A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

— Laura Schlessinger

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

— Lexa Doig

Nobody's gonna be a perfect parent, you know? We're all doing the best we can.

— Kendra Wilkinson

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

— Lester Frank Ward

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as…

— Negash Ali

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

— Allan Bloom

When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out.…

— Christina Aguilera

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking…

— Stephen King

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

— Leon Kass

I don't like kissing on camera. It's bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole…

— Christine Lakin

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

— George Bernard Shaw

Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as…

— Charlotte Mason

For whatever reason I just remembered being six years old and my parents leaving the house and trusting me to be alone.…

— Kathleen Hanna

But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or…

— Helena Rubinstein

We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers.…

— Dan Burton

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You…

— Lisa Snowdon

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until…

— Brooklyn Decker

My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like,…

— Emma Stone

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the…

— Emily Oster

Annabeth, thank goodness, would be staying in New York. She'd gotten permission from her parents to attend a boarding school in the…

— Rick Riordan

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up —…

— Erik Erikson

One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of…

— Jonah Goldberg

There’s something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it’s because they’re supposed to be the strong ones, but that’s…

— Cecelia Ahern

Lemurs are good parents but they do it in different ways. I originally studied father care. I was very interested in that…

— Patricia Wright

Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God…

— Twyla Tharp

I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

— Marco Pierre White

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

— Steven Spielberg

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

— Patrick Rothfuss

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

— Jonny Lang

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us.

— Brad Meltzer

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

— Hakim

“To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves.”

— Hal Edward Runkel