Parent Quotes

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.

At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries." I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

Dr. Martinez: "I take it you don't want me to call your parent?" Max: "Uh, no." Hello, lab? May I speak to the test tube please?

I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.

My parents were not theatrical at all.

This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies are going to die.

You know the old expression "We haven't inherited the world from our parents, we've borrowed it from our children"? Well it's just not true. We haven't borrowed anything.

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

It's hard to have your parents not happy with you.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

I was lucky to have parents who loved me.

Like many a modern parent, I had no clear notion of how to help my most troubled child.

Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.

I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.

My parents, both of them had teachers in their family and were pretty well read. So my father voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower.

I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of Fox News every day and stuff like that.

As much as we teach our kids, the process teaches us. If we're being diligent, we're learning from our strengths as parents, but also from the mistakes that we make.

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.

There are two kinds of houses in the neighborhood where I grew up-the ones where the parents stayed married, and the ones where they didn’t.

Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.

Government cannot be your parent.

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

I've found it easier to write, to coalesce my thoughts, since having children. It brings you back to what you experienced yourself as a child, and you empathize with what your parents went through.

My first instrument was the drums. Not quite sure why I quit and changed to guitar, but I'm sure my parents might have convinced me that the guitar was way better.

I said to my parents that I don't even know if there should be an Israel. And they were just so upset and hurt.

I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.

Witnessing the bond between a parent and their little ones firsthand really brought home to me how much I was missing.

My own parents loved each other very much.

I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.