Parent Quotes

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

I basically had the same body when I was 14 and that was weird. But I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky.

I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.

The parents are pissed, but the kids love it.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

The last thing in the world my parents would want to do is get on a stage or do a movie. They would probably rather die. But they let me be who I was, and they supported me.

In spite of what youngsters think, parents do not get a sneaky thrill out of punishing their children.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

The best that a parent can be... A demonstrator... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.

Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

When I was little, I attended five different elementary schools. My parents are very restless people, which is probably where I get my own nomadic lifestyle from.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.

I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.

one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward.

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.

Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

Don't do speed, speed turns you in to your parents.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.

We see that love manifested normally in the soldier, in the parent, in the lover, and in the spiritual teacher.

It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

I think the only thing harder for a parent is having to sit down and watch you do a dying scene. I've died in three films, and my mom begs me, "Just tell me you don't die at the end."

America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.

All beings are not only the parents in the past. They will become the Buddha in the future. If you free their lives, you are Buddha.

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

The only movies I saw till I was 17 were made by Disney. My parents had this thing. Disney was like, you know, "Ford is a good car. Disney makes good movies that are good for kids and safe."

It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

I've always had this thing where I've always seen my parents as people, from a very young age.

My parents were disappointed I didn't finish college, and they were really upset when I went to Hollywood to become an actor. I was a big disappointment to them.

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.