Parent Quotes

Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent or whose parent was severely wounded in combat.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in spite of physical ailments, they're upbeat.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.

My parents never really lecture me.

My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

Motherhood is the most dangerous and awesome relationship possible. ... The parent/child blood relationship is one-sided and irrevocable and enduring. And it is all rather humbling.

I think it's important to have a happy parent.

If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.

It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

That's what we do on "MasterChef," on "Junior." No school teachers, no parents, let it go. You're going to go on a challenge. We're going to go to hell and back, and we're going to have some bumps.

I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.

Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.

Im just lucky to have great parents. My sisters an actress. My brothers a musician. I found it hard growing up in such a... creatively driven family. I wanted to have this thing to create, myself.

My parents walked in on me Googling 'agents for kids' when I was 9.

I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

For me, Venezuela is very important, not just because it's a place I go to conduct, but because my family is there - my wife, my parents and my musical family.

It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

I always knew I wanted to act, but my parents neverencouraged me. If I was talentless, they didn't want me to be heartbroken.

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

My parents have been with me every step of the way.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.

The mother is the child's supreme parent.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

My parents are really good people - they just are not meant to be together.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

A parent has to be silent much of the time.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13.

There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then."

You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

I have heard people say that they felt closer to their parents after they have died. Maybe if I treat people as if they were dead, I could get along with them better