Parent Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.

I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid to stay in shape - jogging, work on the farm, driving the tractor. I'll never forget.

Whatever parent gives his children good instruction and sets them at the same time a bad example, may be considered as bringing them food in one hand and poison in the other.

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.

Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.

My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.

I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in line. Really in line.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.

You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!

A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.

History is the third parent.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

I think I want to go in to law or oncology, as those are both subjects that really interest me, but my parents say that I should be a politician since I am so good at arguing!

I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit. There wasn't a ton of pushback about it.