Parent Quotes · Page 70

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

— Camryn Manheim

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose…

— Harold S. Kushner

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

— Albert Einstein

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want,…

— Jennifer Lawrence

This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped…

— Charlaine Harris

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

— Mignon McLaughlin

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

— Jack Kirby

Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

— Bill Vaughan

You know, your first album is about really amazing things. Your first album is always about coming of age, first love, first…

— Brandi Carlile

Divorce is war and unfortunately, some parents live in constant entanglements with their ex-spouses and they shift aside the issues that post-divorce…

— Diane Greene

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot…

— A. A. Gill

Homes should be an anchor, a safe harbor, a place of refuge, a place where families dwell together, a place where children…

— L. Tom Perry

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the…

— Isabel Paterson

I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in…

— John Lennon

Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked…

— Cam Newton

My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was…

— Anna Kendrick

I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all…

— Ali Koehler

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the…

— James Robertson

Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are…

— Paul Stanley

The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have…

— George W. Bush

From the perspective of someone with two grown and wonderful kids, that your instincts as parents are correct: a minute spent reading…

— George Saunders

I had an Indian face, but I never saw it as Indian, in part because in America the Indian was dead. The…

— Richard Rodriguez

My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like…

— Bruce Springsteen

If you cut yourself, if you hate yourself, if you eat, if you don’t eat. If your parents split up, if your…

— Aaron Gillespie

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and…

— Selena

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening…

— Perry Brass

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

— P. J. O'Rourke

My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get…

— Vince Carter

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

I listened to my kids talk about me as a parent, and I learned about things they wished I'd done and said.…

— Anonymous

When I speak to kids I tell them, 'Hey, you think your parents are a pain in the ass now, but they're…

— Charles Barkley

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what…

— George Clinton

I don't want to rip families apart. I don't want to be sending parents away from children.

— Hillary Clinton

I give this advice to every parent I meet, and it's something I have believed ever since I was young - never…

— Shatrughan Sinha

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents…

— Lily Rabe

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,

— Woody Allen

When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let…

— Jeff Foxworthy

I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set

— Ranbir Kapoor

What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.

— Zoe Weil

SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

— Douglas Coupland