Parent Quotes · Page 8

The streets was basically my parents.

— Bernard Hopkins

Parenting needs to come to the forefront.

— Bill Cosby

Being a parent is very important to me.

— Diana Ross

My parents never really lecture me.

— Anonymous

I am an elected official. I am a parent.

— Sara Gideon

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

— Rosie O'Donnell

A parent is anybody who takes care of you

— Ms_Freshie

My parents were not theatrical at all.

— Jane Asher

It's a great relief that you're not as bad a parent as you thought you were.

— Nick Hornby

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.

— George Herbert

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

— Nicholas Sparks

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

— Tanya Tucker

We never know the love of a parent till we come parents ourselves.

— Anonymous

A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.

— Richard L. Evans

Women have nine months more experience than you do - nine months to prepare for being a parent.

— Noel Gallagher

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it…

— Thomas Jefferson

My parents said they had to make a lot of sacrifices to pay for my education... because they were both druids.

— Milton Jones

Every parent thinks they're the most qualified person to decide what is best for their child.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

— Sam Ewing

I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon…

— Jason Sudeikis

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

— Anonymous

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

— Donald Trump

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz],…

— Ben Stiller

Being a parent is not just about how you treat your child; it's also about how you treat the other parent. If…

— Art Alexakis

I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an…

— Brene Brown

I've wanted to be a parent for a really long time, and I'm going to make sure I'm doing everything I can…

— Lori Lightfoot

“KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo…

— Carew Papritz

I'm a singer. I'm a dancer. I'm a performer. I'm an actress. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. It makes me…

— Jennifer Lopez

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death…

— Jo Brand

The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he…

— Christopher Eccleston

“An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand…

— Raymond S. Moore

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're…

— Junot Diaz

But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a…

— Chris Adrian

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

A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins…

— Gary L. Thomas

“No parent should have to bury a child ... No mother should have to bury a son. Mothers are not meant to…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything.…

— Claudia Gray