Parent Quotes

4993 quotes by 3126 authors

A young woman is dead. I donâ€™t care. You probably donâ€™t care. The police donâ€™t care. The papers donâ€™t care. The punks for the most… — Lester Bangs
I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime. My… — Ken Dodd
Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids. — Mary Cheney
Internet safety begins at home and that is why my legislation would require the Federal Trade Commission to design and publish a unique website to… — Mike Fitzpatrick
To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect,… — Jerry Fodor
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern… — Roger Penrose
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.... — Hosea Ballou
All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved… — Graham Kerr
The business of both parent and teacher is to enable and to help the child to educate himself, to develop his own intellectual, moral, aesthetic… — Sri Aurobindo
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you… — Shirley Jackson
The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as… — Emma Donoghue
The way I was brought up by my parents and guided through my football life by the influences of various managers means that in some… — Stuart Pearce
I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents. — Eric Lindros
My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me — Meredith Brooks
TheÂ environmentÂ itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who… — Maria Montessori
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes,… — Herbert Spencer
So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to… — Melissa Harris-Perry
We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is… — Melissa Harris-Perry
I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office. — Bob Corker

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