Parent Quotes

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable.

Most people who have wealth came from nothing or their parents came from nothing. And this idea that anyone can grow wealth is central to what we do.

Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.

Obviously I was talking to my parents and my girlfriend all the time, but it's one thing to finally be in the same room and get to be with each other and just hang out.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I think it's hard for any parent to see anything negative said or done against your child and, when you can't directly do something about it, it's hard.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.

As you get older you realize your parents don't look so dumb - and that you're not as smart as you thought you were.

I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

Believing that your parents are always right.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.

My parents are actually very hip. They're way hipper than me.

Kids in America today are overweight and lazy, and it's their parents fault for letting it happen.

Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.

My parents, and their interest in making the world a better place for more people inspired me.

The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

It seems whether we have a tendency towards being flexible or structured affects how we create, how we parent, how we work.

Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

I don't know if I was funny as a child, though I always thought my parents really enjoyed listening to me sing.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

The transition into adulthood is so exciting and remarkable to witness as parent.

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Exercise makes me a better parent. I'm calmer and happier.

As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

I have a great support team. I have very understanding parents that do not put too much pressure on me, and I have close friends that I lean on for support.