Parent Quotes

They say the day you lose your parents, you start to look like them.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

I still visit my village quite often, as my parents and one of my sisters live there, but also I feel the village is more of an isolated, unreal part of me.

Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they are to have no direct share.

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

If I told my parents that I was going to do that [ to be really counsel to a Prime Minister] when I was kid, they would probably put me in therapy.

My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.

If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents No. 1 priority is the kids education.

There's no winning arguments with your parents

Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise.

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

True love is the parent of humility.

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.

At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

My parents were great in the sense that they treated me like a human being when I was growing up. They showed me how beautiful things can be and how ugly they can be.

What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.

Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.

I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.

I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff

I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.

Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

My parents have always been very open.

When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

If you believe that your needs were met because you prayed, then you make God the parent who reacts only when the baby cries. Matthew 6:25-34.

There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.

MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh...

If you are a good parent, please continue to be a good one. But if you are bad parent, today is a great new beginning for you to start a great new chapter of parenthood.

Parents must teach their children the fear of God.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.