Parent Quotes
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To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
William Jennings Bryan
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It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.
Helen Suzman
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I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
Molly Ringwald
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For a long time religion made me feel guilty for being involved in music. Growing up, the religion I grew up in, the Church of Christ, encouraged a capella, but didn't allow musical instruments, so even though my parents allowed me to play trumpet in the band, and I was pretty good at it, it had this baggage.
Gary Panter
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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
William Shakespeare
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An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said it, but I disagree. I understand that maybe there are aspects that you don't understand, or maybe this actor or actress had a really strong recent experience with having their first or second or third born child. I don't know. As a dad, I get that. I get that there is no love like it. But, at the same time, love is love.
Colin Farrell
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There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.
Nikki Sixx
Mötley Crüe
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Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young.
Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.
Uncle Kracker
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To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
Willie Stargell
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A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.
Shirley Ann Manson
Angelfish
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What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
Richard L. Evans
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I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.
Shirley Ann Manson
Angelfish
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I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.
Sandra Bullock
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I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.
Angelina Jolie
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The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.
Andrew Solomon
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.
Binnie Kirshenbaum
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I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having to remember that they're gone.
Charles Henry Mosley III
Bad Brains
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The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.
William Godwin
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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
Seneca the Younger
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I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.
Stephen Karam
