Parent Quotes · Page 68

A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other…

— Jessica Capshaw

My parents are from the former Soviet Union, from Ukraine, and I grew up wanting to be a professional hockey player.

— Gabe Polsky

Being a parent means that everything in your house has been used as a toilet at least once...

— Anonymous

You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

— Angelina Jolie

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

— Ana Castillo

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for…

— Alex Borstein

If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.

— Paul Dini

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school…

— Carre Otis

That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have…

— Henry Giroux

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise.…

— E. M. Delafield

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself…

— Jill Hennessy

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who…

— Robert B. Parker

Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later,…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I owe a lot to my parents, because they kept no genre off limits. Music was always playing in the house. They…

— Tori Kelly

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The…

— Walter Scott

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to…

— Maggie Stiefvater

One of the most essential and mundane of human activities - taking care of children - requires high levels of anxious vigilance.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for…

— Murray Rothbard

True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“If you're responsible enough to become a parent, then you should be responsible enough to accept your kid no matter how they…

— T.J. Klune

Isn't it a remarkable coincidence almost everyone has the same religion as their parents ? And it always just happens to be…

— Richard Dawkins

Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are…

— Amos Oz

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you…

— Bertrand Russell

I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My…

— Lily King

I was in love with Tina Goodman since I was three and her parents came popping out of the trash cans. I…

— Val Kilmer

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in…

— Denise Mina

I think there is a time in every person's life where they have to let their parents go and figure out what…

— Chris Sullivan

Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

— Melissa Breen

If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in…

— William Bennett

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

— Mallory Ortberg

The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand…

— James Hillman

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

— Barack Obama

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill…

— Nancy Friday

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu…

— Aisha Tyler

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

— Alice Miller

One of the things that I learned at a very young age is the power of a parent's words to their children.

— Danny Gokey

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

— Saoirse Ronan

Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these…

— Siddharth Katragadda

Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.

— Tim Allen

It was always the view of my parents...that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.

— Ian Mcewan