Parent Quotes

My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

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

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.

The most difficult part of dating as a single parent is deciding how much risk your own child's heart is worth.

I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.

When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!

The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

Adults who think that children must be manipulated for their own good have developed the attitude of a controlling parent who lacks faith in himself, the child, or humanity or himself.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

I watch like, Steve Jobs interviews, I don't really watch TV. I stopped watching TV when I turned like ten because my parents were like, 'TV's really bad for you.'

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

We need to recognize the incredible challenges that so many parents face, especially working moms. We need to join the rest of the advanced world.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.

There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

Drugs will turn you into your parents.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

It's all about loving your parents.

I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.