Parent Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock.

Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

Parents tell us things to protect us, or they educate us from their own misinformation or misconceptions.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

My parents could not be more Italian.

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.

No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.

The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you think of as healthy.

I saw my parents, as immigrants, try and try and try to take root and get ahead and so yes, 'Sweat' resonates with me incredibly. And I was an outsider. So I know very much about that.

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're going to screw it up and you're going to make a mistake.

When I was 3 my parents put me in gymnastics because I was a bundle of energy and they just didn't know what to do with me! They put me in a Tots class and I just fell in love with it.

My parents have one rule for me: I can't do any of this if I have any C's on my report card.

My parents are the people that led me here. My mom helped me learn to sing and she travels with me.

I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.

The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.

I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something.

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.

One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.