Parent Quotes

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Tape record your parents' laughter

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

Don’t simply settle for what your parents had. You can go further than that. You can do more, have more, be more.

One of the best ways of becoming an effective parent—or, for that matter, an effective human being—is to understand the perceptions of other people, to be able to “get into their world.

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.

The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny.

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

Before you get married you should meet your fiance's parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.