Parent Quotes

Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

I don't know what I'm doing as a parent at all.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child, it's time for a zone defense instead of man-to-man.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

Write as if your parents are dead.

When parents are confident that their children will live, they have fewer of them. They invest more in each child's food, health and education.

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger.

Healthy love, I always think, is... wanting the person you love to be more of themselves. And I think for a parent that's a challenge, because you have to let a baby spread its wings.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

My daughter always behaved in restaurants. And if she didn't, she's going out. I mean, one of the parents is going to take her outside. Immediately.

Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

It was a natural path for me, being an artist. Both my parents were artists. I was surrounded by it and I instinctively was drawn toward it, and received a lot of encouragement.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.

Our children are our sequels. Our parents are our prequels. All living beings are our equals.

I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.

As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.

My parents [are my hero]. They've helped me be who I am.

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

My kids are incredibly secure. More and more of their friends' parents are divorcing, but my kids have absolute confidence that we'll stay together forever. That goes a long, long way.

Hip Hop has introduced us to a lot of genres that we probably wouldn't even listen to in our own homes from our parents.

We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

My parents told me I must get married. I was seen as a failure if I didn't do it.

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.

When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.

I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.

My own parents were touchy-feely.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

The streets was basically my parents.

Choose your parents wisely.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.