Parent Quotes

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert.

There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

I know that all over America there's probably politicians sending out pictures of themselves signing that mandatory helmet bill, but it's bullshit. I say that as a parent.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

Like any parent, I just want the best for my kids, whatever they decide to do. They will choose what path they want to follow, and we will always be there to encourage them.

The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.

It's hard for parents just to measure schools.

When I started doing magic as a kid, my parents had no problem.

To make [parents] happy, I went to Fordham University for three weeks, while at the same time running ads in Variety, "magician-actor David Copperfield."

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

My parents always told me to stay away from trouble. When I moved away from them at a young age, I was fine because they taught me how to do everything right.

My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.

It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.

We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

Try not to worry what your parents think - try to help them see that you do live by the values that they taught you.

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

Any time your parent says they party with you, that is its own form of child abuse.

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

Fortunately, both my parents, especially my mom, have guided me, and been amazing at handling my career and my finances. They taught me not to buy what I don't need, when I'm not working that much.

My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.

As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.

It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

My kids are so much better parent than I was.

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.

An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time.

My parents are pretty cool people.