Parent Quotes
4993 quotes by 3185 authors
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Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
— Bill Walton
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People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in…
— Kerry Washington
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In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might…
— Rick Santorum
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Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like…
— Wanda Sykes
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We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express…
— Josh McDowell
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The doctrine of pre-existence pours a wonderful flood of light upon the otherwise mysterious problem of man's origin. It shows that man, as a spirit,…
— Heber J. Grant
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Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to help you over…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears -…
— Arianna Huffington
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Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all…
— Dave Barry
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Every parent knows that for a kid, the car is chloroform..
— Ray Romano
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Parents, just keep in mind that kids will always round off to the nearest obscenity..
— Ray Romano
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Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.
— Bill Cosby
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Fear is the parent of cruelty.
— James Anthony Froude
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Beware the cute, hot guy who kind of reminds you of the parent you don't get along with: your cold, distant father who left when…
— Merrill Markoe
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Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents…
— James E. Faust
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To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.
— Mark Victor Hansen
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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
— Euripides
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There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.
— Robert Breault
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Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law…
— Robert Breault
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Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.
— Evelyn Waugh
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