Parent Quotes

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.

My plan will also help reduce the cost of child care by allowing parents to fully deduct the average cost of child care spending from their taxes.

I am a person who grew up with two wonderful parents and a wonderful family and a person who has done well in life.

To every parent who dreams for their child, and every child who dreams for their future, I say these words to you: I am with you, and I will fight for you, and I will win for you!

One Christmas, I just begged my parents like "I want to try to surf on a real board instead of these boogie boards and rafts" and they got me one.

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.

Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents' credit card information.

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You're very tired, but it's so wonderful. God, it's emotional, but it's the best. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

I remember when I took a temp job... so I got a job at a department store. Something temporary to put on my resume, my parents said. Yeah... till I die!

I can't do that. I'm already the single guy living in his parents' house. I can't be seen digging a grave in the middle of the night.

I know I still had to take money from my parents, because no one can afford to live in Manhattan, not even the rich people.

One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.

I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'

My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, and every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of their invisible enemies.

My parents are always supportive of anything their kids do. They point out the pros and cons, but they let you make your own decisions, and when it's bad they stick by you.

If you don’t sign up your kids for cryonics then you are a lousy parent.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.

My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that they didn't have enough time with their parents.

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

I'd hope to reach any kid who feels apart from the group - those who seem to be outsiders, who feel different. Kids who want to reach their parents often don't know how to do so.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

My parents are big Shakespeare fans.

Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.