Parent Quotes

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.

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 want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

There are occasions when I've had beef, but I generally tend to avoid it, as a nod towards my parents' culture.

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.

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.

I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

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 grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

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

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

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

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

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

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."

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

As your heart goes, so goes your family! If your heart isn't right, no child raising system, rules, or gimmicks will ever work. As your heart goes, so goes your parenting!

I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.

Dr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.

Being a parent is amazing.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

I was not prepared to live as a single parent.

My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.

organization is the religion of the single parent.

Being a founder is like being a parent. You always stay involved.

I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.

I know I'm always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. That's for sure. It's about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined.