Parent Quotes

The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

Worrying seems like a fairly natural state of being for a parent, so feel free to worry as much as you want.

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

I think a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together where both the kid and the parent learn.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.

When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.

Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind

I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

A direful death indeed they had That would put any parent mad But she was more than usual calm She did not give a singel dam.

A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent

I'm not like a religious exerciser. My parents go down to the gym everyday now, and I'm the one that stays upstairs. But I definitely need to start exercising.

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

Our parents got to be kids. Now it's our turn.

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."

My parents are proud of me being an actor.

I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.

She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be fair, but that's the approximate level of pressure.)

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.