Parent Quotes

My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person's life.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

Parenting needs to come to the forefront.

I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children.

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

We parents ask dumb questions, therefore we get dumb answers.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.

I don't dislike children, I just don't particularly want to be around with them a lot. Problem is, neither do their parents.

I looked at the Branson Mo. deal but it's all old people and their parents

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.

My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don't even belong to your parents. It's an old Spanish law. It doesn't require your parents to swear out a complaint; anybody can.

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.

The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We must all take protective measures.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

When I grew up, we had no babysitters and nobody every observed us. People don't parent like that today. They're very hands-on; kids are constantly being supervised.

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

Don't listen to your parents.

My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk.

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.

I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.

When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

Take the government away. Let the parents take care of their kids.

Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.

My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

My parents were really nice to me.

Both of my parents were musicians.