Parent Quotes

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.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

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.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

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.

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

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

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

A parent can give a child no greater gift than beautiful manners.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach.

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

I hate when new parents ask who the baby looks like. It was born 15 minutes ago, it looks like a potato

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child is here to teach me as much about myself and how I need to grow, as I am here to teach them.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Every parent's first responsibility is to teach his child that there is a God to whom he's accountable and that God has certain commands that we're obligated to obey.

My parents made us dream that we could be anyone that we wanted to.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

Most youth still hold the same values of their parents…if we do not alter this pattern, if we don’t resocialize, our system will decay.

I wish we lived in a world where all kids were loved by their parents how I was and am every day.

To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

The voice in my head has a stutter, and that's really annoying. D-D-D-Dave Dave. What? K-K-K-Kill your p-p-p-parents. L-L-L-Loa... Write it down!

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music was playing literally all over the house.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.