Parent Quotes

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.

Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

When I was younger, I was very scared to talk to people. To the point where my parents took me to a therapist because they thought something was wrong with me.

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

Tom has a theory that homosexuals and single women in their thirties have natural bonding: both being accustomed to disappointing their parents and being treated as freaks by society.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.

There aren't as many roles for people who look like me, and it was always complicated when it came to casting my parents. But now I couldn't be more grateful that I have a different look.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?

It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent to jurisdiction of the sovereign.

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile to literary culture.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Do not beg me by knees or by parents you dog! I only wish I were savagely wrathful enough to hack up your corpse and eat it raw

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

I realize it is normal to argue. I almost missed World War II watching my parents fight.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

I used to date a girl from Buffalo. Why can't I meet a girl with normal parents?

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is whenever you make a strength program easier, you will get weaker.

I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

If a parent doesn't want his/her child to read a book then there is always an alternative text to read. But the book banners want to control what every child reads.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.