Parent Quotes

Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?

I would say that my parents were supportive of me.

When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

You’re always a kid around your parents… Unless they’re acting like children. Then you don’t get the chance.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.

Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

If you haven't already told your kids 'don't fellate the president' then you're probably a bad parent.

My parents were married 53 years, good and bad. Can I do that? Probably not. But I really hope I can.

It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

My parents created their own war.

Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young age through my parents.

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.

I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

Some well-to-do parents may say, "I have a right to have as many children as I want because I can take care of them." That may be so, but can the Earth take care of them?

I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate.

Freedom to really prioritize and really zone into what really matters which is the parent-child connection.

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

I'd like to thank my parents for always stressing, be an individual.

Not even my parents know how I vote.

Every family is a "normal" family- no matter whether it has one parent, two, or no children at all.

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

My parents are retired, basically.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

There's never been a parent in my life.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

Teach your parents well.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.

As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me.

My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything

Forcing me to figure out how to provide for myself was probably one of the best things my parents ever did for me.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

I'd never really thought about it before, but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good.