Parent Quotes

A new survey found that 12 percent of parents punish their kids by banning social networking sites. The other 88 percent punish their kids by joining social networking sites.

Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.'

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.

Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

Have we arrived at our own faith and our own path or simply internalized the beliefs of parents, clergy, spouse, or friends?

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.

Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.

Every human being born within the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen.

I grew up around some people whose parents toured a lot: tough on the marriage, tough on the kids.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.

I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and because they were great, I thought very little about them in high school.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend’s shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.

When I look at my parents I'm like, 'This is easy. Staying together for 35 years? How hard is that?' They're like, 'Very hard.

My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

I don't think my parents know what I do.

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.

This is a Happy Birthday card, Made with lots of love by me It's to a Very Important Parent A VIP... ...and you are she

I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

Everyone wants to be called an outsider so I'm a proud insider. If I was young I'd be in my parents' house shutting down the government on my computer. The new delinquent is the hacker.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?

I think my parents were high when they named me.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

The loss of my parents was definitely the hardest thing I've had to endure. I just felt really dead inside for a long time.

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe there's a renaissance for our music.