Parent Quotes

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

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

I'm originally from Tampa and grew up on beach. I'm also naturally fair-skinned. The funny thing is, my parents are both pretty tan, but for some reason I didn't get those genes.

I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use; back then it was a 'broken home'.

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

I was so ugly that my parents sent my picture to 'ripley's believe it or not' - they sent it back and said, "we don't believe it."

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

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.

I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

As a child, I remember I always wanted to make my parents happy and give them everything in their lives.

The empty nest is underrated.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

There are accidental parents, but there are no accidental children. There are illegitimate parents, but there are no illegitimate children.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My parents were marvelously educated people.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz... a beautiful chaos.

There's only one way kids will wear helmets, and that's if their parents are nagging them to. They will never wear helmets because some state passes a law requiring it.

I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.