Parent Quotes

I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the Columbia House record club, so they had records!

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star.

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Creating a child takes no love or skill; being a parent requires lots of both.

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

Thank God I had two parents who loved me enough to stay on my case.

Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

After such an emotional day with her own parents, the thought nearly brought Luce to her knees with sadness. Daniel was alone in the world.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

[I'm a conscious parent when I] believe that my child matters more than their relationship to academics or success.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

My parents were hippies.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

I talk to my parents everyday and every move that I make, every endorsement that I do, every film that I do and my everyday activities are all discussed with them.