Parent Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

Your parents are your projection-nothing more.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children.

Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

My family, my parents are hippies.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your best interests at heart.

Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind; The foul cubs like their parents are.

What we love, we protect. This story will delight children and parents alike, who care for what they love.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.

It's very important that your parents have careers of their own. When the kid becomes the breadwinner of the household, that's when you have problems.

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats.

I was an ugly child. I got lost on the beach. I asked a cop if he could find my parents. He said, 'I don't know. There's lots of places for them to hide'.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

My parents were not pushy or anything like that. I think my mom was still expecting me to be an astronaut, but now she is very happy that I'm not doing that.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

You know how kids are. They like to do what parents do.

I believe you can have discipline without fear. I believe that you can have a cohesive and inclusive band where students and parents feel welcome to express their concerns or opinions.