Parent Quotes

Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.

Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise that of not killing, and vice versa.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

I'm quite good at going away from home. I don't live with my parents or anything. But it is tough when you're so far away from everyone.

When I was younger and my parents used to always slap my hand if I was picking my nose or if I was running around screaming I was told to shut up.

I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.

I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them.

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

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!

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.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Parent's job = Prepare the child for the world. Parent of autistic child's job = Prepare the world for the child.

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents.

I suppose that when I'm building a character, it's usually related to what their family is like and who their parents are, as well as how I grew up - that nurture side.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

My parents have always been cool. They even became surrogates to friends of mine who didn't have such supportive parents.

Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.

I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.

We are the buffoons of our children.

There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil

It's a natural thing for a child to lose a parent. I lost my mom too young but it happened. And I'm happy she's out of pain, 'cause I love her and she's my friend.

You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.