Parent Quotes

My message to little kids who aspire to be anything they want to be is to listen to their parents.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

I don't believe in Hell, but I believe in my parents' couch.

I have 4 kids already, I don’t need anymore. I’m a single parent. I’m taking them through Europe and make them play funny instruments.

In the end, the type of parent you are is going to be something that you carry with you. ... Having multiple kids, it's been a gift in a way. It's keeping the priorities straighter.

Your parents are supposed to tell you to make decisions that are gonna help you and that'll have a positive effect on your life and your well-being.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.

An unlimited amount of ability can develop when parent and child are having fun together.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

I am feeling as if my parents are my children. I'm extremely protective about both of them while on the set

My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.

Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

Lack of love from parents often motivates their children to go searching for love in other relationships. This search is often misguided and leads to further disappointment.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.

The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent