Parent Quotes

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates.

My parents were hoarders before hoarding was cool

My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Television is the third parent.

I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.

Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.

If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

What I do is so important to me. It’s like being a parent, in some ways, of a super-demanding , high-achieving child, with a cry that sounds really cool on the radio.

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

Let the parent ask "Why?" and the child produce the answer, if he can. After he has turned the matter over in his mind, there is no harm in telling him - and he will remember it - the reason why.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Educating a child won't be difficult if you get through to the parent.

The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

I would like to see every parent either directly - if they are comfortable with the technology - or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.