Parent Quotes

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

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

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

I would definitely love to be a parent.

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.

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

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.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

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

Your parents want to think they have a healthy, happy family.

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

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

Father died last year. I don't subscribe to the theory by which we only become truly adult when our parents die; we never become truly adult.

I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always around me, my parents never pressured me into it.

My parents never said I had to be 16 to date, but that has been the rule for all my friends.

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't

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.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

We are the people are parents warned us against.

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

The empty nest is underrated.

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

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.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

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.

Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

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

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.

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

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene.

What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't going to be somewhere else doing exciting and glamorous things.

I thank thee, Mother Nature, that thou hast put ingenuity enough in the brain of a child, when attacked by a brutal parent, to throw up a little breastwork in the shape of a lie.

Partiality in a parent is unlucky; for fondlings are in danger to be made fools.

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

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

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.