Parent Quotes
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Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
Oliver Hudson
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
Oscar Wilde
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When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
Adam Sandler
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My mom was a single parent.
G-Eazy
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
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You want your parents to say, "Hey, I'm proud of you." When you don't hear that, you learn to compensate. You say, "Hell, I don't need their approval. If I get my music right, I'll have everyone else's approval." I didn't understand it then, but I now know that's what happened to me.
Quincy Jones
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Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Hedy Lamarr
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It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become these lovebugs that come back. It's just so sweet.
Garth Brooks
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Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering of the self from the inside, not imposition from the outside. Any technique that does not give life to a child's learning and leave a child's dignity intact cannot be called discipline--it is punishment, no matter what language it is clothed in.
Barbara Coloroso
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If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
Gail Sheehy
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Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
Nancy Gibbs
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Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.
Anthony Rapp