Parent Quotes

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

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

It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

Every parent's deepest wish is that their children are self sufficient, happy, and able to live a full life.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual," added Magnus. "Please never say those words in front of my parents," said Alec.

I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

Keeping a sense of humor about life. My parents divorced when I was 8, and whenever I felt down, my mom would remind me that a sense of humor gets you through just about anything.

Being a good parent will necessarily break our hearts as we watch a child grow and eventually choose their own way, even through many of the same heartbreaks we have traversed.

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. [Lat., Licet ipsa vitium sit ambitio, frequenter tamen causa virtutem est.]

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

I speak in reality. I don't try to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

I think it's just having the support of our parents. Knowing that they're going to keep you on the right path and guide you.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

I would say is that kids know about Bernie Sanders and they're off the radar.In the same way kids knew about Twitter before their parents did.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people

With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.