Parent Quotes · Page 95

I'm completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

— Jemima West

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

— Anonymous

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they're…

— Emilia Clarke

Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.

— Carl Crawford

I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of…

— Sebastian Coe

“Always listen to the parent who doesn’t like who you love. They can smell a mistake.”

— Terry McMillan

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together…

— Maria Rodale

A parenting program should focus on parent's attitudes to themselves, their children, and the relationships they are building with their children.

— Timothy Carey

I'm a parent. I have kids, and what's happening with our waters, and our oceans, and what's happening with deforestation, and all…

— Don Cheadle

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to…

— Kevin Conroy

American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a…

— Sydney J. Harris

The movie [Aquarius] is about love, ultimately, and it was made with love. There were a lot of parents in the crew,…

— Sonia Braga

I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at…

— Brian Regan

We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is…

— Michael Fassbender

I don't have kids, but I've often noticed when people first become parents they seem to completely forget their own adolescence and…

— Maia Szalavitz

As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are…

— Anthony Bourdain

Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death…

— Anonymous

She looked at me, confused. “He hardly knew me. My parents dated and got married before we knew what happened. Let’s just…

— Darynda Jones

I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I…

— Maggie Stiefvater

We need to make sure that every child in America goes to a school every day that is safe, will teach them…

— J. C. Watts

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in…

— Dalai Lama

My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me…

— Benoit Lecomte

I feel very grateful. I wasn't raised with money. My parents were schoolteachers; I was raised on a small farm. It never…

— Paul Marcarelli

Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means.…

— Wayne Mack

Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you…

— Peter Lynch

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think…

— Matias Tellez

I don't want to deal with a booster, and I don't really want to talk to the parent of a player. I…

— Sean Payton

I know it sounds crazy, but I have had far more connection with my parents after their deaths

— Lynn Johnston

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

— Anonymous

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that…

— Tyne Daly

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

— Francis Chan

There comes a moment as a parent when you realize you will no longer be the center of your child's universe.

— Carre Otis

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at…

— Josh Homme

My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love…

— Ruth Wilson

I'm a parent, I raise two kids, you get afraid of what the world has got in store for people, you know…

— Gareth Evans

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

— Lacey Chabert

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

— Helen McCrory

The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.

— Zach Wahls

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

— Glenda Jackson

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do…

— Randy Pausch