Parent Quotes

I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children!

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

The most important thing to me is to give something back to my parents, because they've done so much for me throughout my life.

My parents have always done what they've loved, and they've had many different careers.

I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

Everything seems to take on a new meaning when you become a parent and you put yourself in the shoes of the parent, not the shoes of the child.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

Even growing up, I was always the helper-outer, the sous-chef to my parents.

My parents never said it. They thought you shouldn't wear out the words

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.

All parents gush about what it's like to be a parent. I love it.

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo.

I had good parents. Nothing terrible happened. But I had the feeling that they kind of protected me from reality somehow.

Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Are anybody's parents typical?

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.

When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellous friend she's been, I'm so glad my parents didn't take me at my word.

Hello, Grace's parents. I'm Grace's boyfriend. Please notice the chaste distance between us. I am very responsible and have never had my tongue in your daughter's mouth.

My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.