Parent Quotes

Sound has no parents.

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

The British have always made terrible parents.

I think as a parent if you don't understand the perils of social media and what it does to kids, you're neglectful because it's probably the biggest polluter in a child's mind.

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

There are books... which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.

My parents really encouraged me.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

As much as my parents are part of Hollywood, I have no recollection of them giving me advice about it.

I think people kind of come in who they are, and it sort of doesn't even matter who their parents are - it can affect you a little bit, and you can be guided and shaped.

I hate to be a broken record - my parents have a lot to do with that too, because that's how they live their lives.

I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.

I have the coolest parents.

It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.

I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.

Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

Irreverence ran on both sides of our family...my parents brought me up to think we could all change the world.

My parents brought me up with this philosophy. You must do things. You mustn't watch what other people are doing. You must not listen to what other people are doing.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

I was big and fat and had weird parents.

My parents were my worst audience.

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.

When I see a salt and pepper standing next to a bottle of ketchup, to me that's obviously a parent and two children, you know? Isn't it for everybody?

Everything I did with my life I did so that I could give my parents everything they didn't have because of me.

Look at it this way," Ms. Terwilliger said, after several moments of thought. "The callistana thinks of you two as its parents.

Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.

My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.

Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.

I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

I had always loved comedy, and acted out Steve Martin and Bill Cosby albums with my sister for my parents on road trips and stuff, and I loved to laugh and make people laugh.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts.

I think my parents - my parents were very hands-off, quite liberal in terms of their - they really - they did encourage me, but they never really pushed me into anything, really.