Parent Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Both parents supported my becoming a world class athlete.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.'

Everyone needs acknowledgement. When we're kids, we need it from our parents. If you don't get love from your family, you're destroyed inside.

I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

More than ever, we as parents and a nation must do something about the growth of obesity in our children. We must do more than just talk, we must be concerned enough to act.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

My parents moved to Florida when I was 12, and my backyard was the Gulf of Mexico.

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still, you have to let them go. Start now.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.