Parent Quotes · Page 82

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

— Melissa Breen

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

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

— Val Kilmer

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

— Alice Miller

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

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

— Barack Obama

Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person…

— Michael Josephson

My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that,…

— Robin Williams

Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today's ghettos to 'a legacy of slavery'…

— Thomas Sowell

I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret…

— Jason Mraz

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might…

— Emmylou Harris

There's a kind of mystery to our being and from my point of view, regarding my own parents and their parents, I'd…

— T.C. Boyle

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure.…

— Arabella Weir

“The Government's going to pass a bill regarding schools. Well I never. Interfering gang they are, as if a parent doesn't know…

— James Hanley

What distinguishes [Afropolitans] is a willingness to complicate Africa – namely, to engage with, critique, and celebrate the parts of Africa that…

— Taiye Selasi

“he admitted that he had projected his ideas of how life should go based on the route he had taken himself. He…

— Tig Notaro

I compare the Middle East to a big condominium, we called shared residence? Well, you have many families that you don't like;…

— Ehud Barak

My grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only…

— Saina Nehwal

My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a…

— Toots Thielemans

but it wasn't just about my feelings. The more I got to know you, the more I was certain that you'd do…

— Nicholas Sparks

Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap,…

— Ayelet Waldman

Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself…We don't speak of…

— Selma Fraiberg

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

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

— Mallory Ortberg

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

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

— Walt Disney

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

— J. C. Ryle

I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to…

— Rachel Carson

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

— Nick Bostrom

There is a real world, beyond the glass, for children who look, for those whose parents encourage them to truly see.

— Richard Louv

Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes,…

— Cassandra Clare

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

— Nancy Gibbs

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping…

— Arne Duncan

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator…

— Trey Parker

Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed…

— Danica McKellar

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it…

— Laurence Steinberg

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment…

— Anthony Trollope