Parent Quotes

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

I hope everyone can examine what is the most important relationship in life - the relationship between parent and child.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.

My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.

Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.

The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

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.

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.

You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.

My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!