Parent Quotes

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.

My family, my parents are hippies.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

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

I want to be the best parent I can be. I want to be the best husband I can be

Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

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.

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.

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'.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

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.

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

We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

When parents watch scientist after scientist describe the dangers of GM foods, I wouldn't want to be a stubborn food service director trying to stand in their way.

Don't just parent your kids, develop them.

People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

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

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.

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

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like tigers and panthers. I got a mouse.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

...Bear true witness, even if it be against yourselves, your parents or your family.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, Wow, they never told me no!