Parent Quotes

The psychological origins of love are in attachment to parents and sexual partners. We do not attach to ourselves; we do not seek security and fulfillment in ourselves.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.

I see a lot of parents now who are really supporting their kids playing music.

You are a wonderful son, and a wonderful man. Yet another parent busting forth with the “man” thing! I’d have to check my chest for signs of hair when I got home.

It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?

In Georgia, rednecks are just wolves in wolf clothing. In Detroit, you don't know who's a redneck until you go home and meet their parents.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

My parents are divorced, and that was the last thing I wanted for myself. I waited until I was 36 to propose, and I'm really proud of that.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.

Parents don't realize that when they teach you about the Holocaust too early, it ruins you for life.

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.

I was Little Miss Perfect. That's where all the secrets come in, because you know damn well you are not perfect, but you think your parents want you to be. And so you pretend.

My mother was adored by her family and by the scores of children she took care of and their parents, all of whom called her 'Miss Woody.

That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents who are not paying attention to them.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

Ever since I can remember feeling love for my parents, I've been frightened of losing them.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

If I had been living through the '80s, I probably would've gotten into a lot more trouble than my parents.

I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.

My parents will be sad for a while, and they may even blame themselves, the way they do now. Eventually they'll come to peace with my decision. I hope they'll realize I'm finally at peace.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.

Of course, when you're a parent, you can never really be sick.

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

Could we betray our parents by going back to them?

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

They [her parents] still highly encourage me to come home ... but, it's every time I go home I can tell they're disappointed in me, and that for me is kind of hard.

I never got into debt because my parents had drummed into me at a young age: if you can't afford it, you can't have it.

I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.

Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

My parents were very artistic, but busy.

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.