Parent Quotes

Why can't parents dance? Is it some universal law of physics or something?

Everything is ideal to its parent.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

If anything I think we connect to what our parents were listening to when they were our age. I'm listening to a lot of classical and electronic music, like Aphex Twin, non-vocal music.

What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away.

Nothing reassures parents more than surrounding their kids with the kind of guys who have a lot of weapons and nothing to do on weekdays.

I can't come on like a parent to these kids, if I do, I won't be able to have fun working with them. The good news is they all have parents. The younger ones, their parents by law have to be on set.

Ring up your parents and ring up your kids and tell them that you love them.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own, that if they were left alone, they would die.

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

If we want parents to be discerning about what children are watching then we need to put stuff in there for them to watch, too.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.

Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge.

I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's can't give. More food.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

I didn't know who I was and I didn't know if what was in me was any good. But my parents taught me to believe in myself and to work until something happens.

I'm having a difficult time killing my parents

It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.

My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom. "Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended.

I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.

I began absolutely non-stop tormenting my parents, begging them on a daily basis to move there.

My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Sometimes you go through those phases where you take your parents for granted, but I really do appreciate everything my mother's done because I know I wouldn't be here if it weren't for her.

Every parent is wondering, how do we keep our kids safe? We need a commander in chief who does what Ronald Reagan did with communism, which is he set out a global strategy to defeat Soviet communism.

My parents don't really watch movies at all.

As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!

While there's plenty to be said for drive and talent, it was my parents' support that started me on the path that led me here today.