Parent Quotes

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.

Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

I don't want to rip families apart. I don't want to be sending parents away from children.

My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

I'm a parent, and I regulate what my kids listen to. I don't need the government to be the parent. If I'm a crappy parent, then I need the government involved.

If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a... lot of cardio just from being a parent.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

I always felt love from both my parents.

Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

I was put into this business by my parents as soon as I could walk. I was groomed by them for this business. I didn't wake up at the early ages of 5 or 6 and say I want to be a star.

You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.

Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave. No one really talked about it in those terms or gave it a name.

Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire.

Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, "So when did you start and why? What about your parents?" I say to them, "Please, have you heard of the word Google?"

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.

Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.

There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.

My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.

I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

We live inside our parents' backstory.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

My parents are still together. I have two sisters. I travel the world and they are the people I speak to.

I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the time of the murder you hate your lost parent, my mother in my case.