Parent Quotes

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

If my parents were still alive, they would be very proud. They gave me a good start in life, the values that have driven me, and the confidence to believe in myself.

My mother's the most special person in my life ... I consider her my MVP: Most Valuable Parent.

My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important.

Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching my parents cook that really served as the impetus for my career choice.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

My parents are definitely reformed hippies.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

I've met a surprising number of comedy writers whose parents are scientists. Both have an antiauthoritarian slant - they're both skeptics.

Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

I was born to poor because of honest parents.

I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

My parents didn't play golf.

My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.

What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it. pg 29

Single parenthood is hard, but it's simple too. You just do everything yourself.

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

The biggest mistakes most parents make (and believe me, I'm guilty of these too) seem very inconsequential. They're little, day-to-day things that, at the moment, don't seem like a big deal.

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.