Parent Quotes · Page 96

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

— John Green

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

— Christopher Castellani

My parents are the people that led me here. My mom helped me learn to sing and she travels with me.

— Coco Jones

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

— Anonymous

The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids decision not to drink alcohol.

— Xavier Becerra

Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.

— William Barclay

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

— Lisa Gardner

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called…

— Guru Nanak

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience…

— Joseph Addison

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But…

— Lisa Ling

The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?" "Does it matter?" said…

— Marissa Meyer

But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a…

— Barack Obama

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid -…

— Eliza Coupe

I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but…

— Sarah Dessen

Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any…

— Andrew Solomon

Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are…

— Eleanor Lerman

There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for…

— Carolyn Hax

My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They…

— Chloe Sevigny

Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear the day their parents kill. My mum killed a guy,…

— Christopher Titus

It's immoral to parent irresponsibly... And it doesn't help matters any when prime time tv, like "Murphy Brown", a character who is…

— Dan Quayle

A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we…

— Alice Sebold

Suppose that throughout your childhood you were good with numbers. Other kids used to copy your homework. You figured store discounts faster…

— James Hillman

“The love a parent feels for a child is strange. There is a starting point to our love for everyone else, but…

— Fredrik Backman

Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't…

— Josh Radnor

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the…

— Haim Ginott

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my…

— Natalie Portman

Being a parent means saying something nicely 7 times and having no one listen to you 'til you scream it the 8th.

— Anonymous

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them…

— Steve Burns

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will…

— Alison Gopnik

We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

— Ethan Nadelmann

I play Peeta. That's his name. It was given to him by his parents. He comes from a long line of bread.…

— Josh Hutcherson

“If an album or a video game exerts more influence on your child's mind, then you must ask yourself: what kind of…

— Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato

— Anonymous

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the…

— Lily Rabe

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference…

— Mark Hoppus

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the…

— Martin Seligman

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was…

— Kay Panabaker