Parent Quotes

• You can come from a family of actors, and sometimes there have been families that grow you up as an actor, but this wasn't my situation. It's very important to find your own way because it's something you then have to confront yourself. You're not going to be asking your parents.

  

  Violante Placido
  • Important
  • Sometimes
  • Situation

• I rely on some words that actually my husband said to me. He jokes about saying, "You know it's only darkest before it's totally black!" Even in my darkest hour - and my darkest hour was probably when I lost both my parents - I look to him and I see what he has endured, what he has overcome, what he is doing with his life, and just how he's lived his life.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Black
  • Husband
  • Overcoming

• I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

  

  Hunter Parrish
  • Done
  • Parent
  • Blind

• I shall take my present leave - but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication [prayer] that since he has been pleased to favour the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparellelled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.

  

  George Washington
  • Prayer
  • Wise
  • Humble

• They literally have what they would call "a four-quadrant" movie that they could just release at any moment. Parents want to go there, kids want to go there, hipsters want to go there. It's like everyone will want to see it.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Kids
  • Moments
  • Release

• When I was young, we were quite strongly discouraged from listening to pop music. It was an uncomfortable thing, pop music; I think my parents felt threatened by it. They were always happy when they were listening to Mozart, so if your parents are happy, then you're happy.

  

  William Orbit
  • Listening
  • Uncomfortable
  • Discouraged

• Spanking doesn't lead to anything in the child, other than anger, a sense of frustration and humiliation. And parents can do better. I'm not saying it should be against the law but parents can do better.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • Children
  • Frustration
  • Spanking

• Women now make up approximately half of the workforce - very positive. Two-thirds of all families are either headed by a single-head of household or two working parents, and particularly in this economically challenging time, that second income is more important than ever. However, women are still only earning 75 percent of what men are earning.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• God, you mean I lost my virginity to the apocalypse?" Morgan sighed again. "The whole thing was really embarrassing; my parents sent me to Brooklyn when they found out." She shrugged. "I thought I’d be safe in a gay bar, okay? What were you doing in there anyway?" Lace looked at me sidelong. "You were where?" I took a sip of beer, swallowed it. "I, uh, hadn’t been in the city...very long. I didn’t know.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Long
  • Mean
  • Gay

• I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Young
  • Parent
  • Suspects

• Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It's the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he's an orphan. The Bush administration's updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that 'we're at war.

  

  William Blum
  • Men
  • War
  • Criticism

• One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

  

  Thorsten Heins
  • Misconception
  • Smartphones
  • Blackberries

• My parents always have taught me 'you're good enough'. So, whenever I got bad comments from the judges, or I'd get on the Internet and read what bloggers have written about me, I would get so down, and I would get so sad. The biggest support group was obviously my parents, and I'd call them. And they'd build me up.

  

  Carmen Rasmusen
  • Support
  • Internet
  • Judging

• OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

  

  Mike Mills
  • Trying
  • Dad
  • Mom

• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Prejudice

• The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Children
  • Effort
  • Mistake

• I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • America
  • Parent

• I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

  

  Meredith Brooks
  • Artist
  • Autonomy
  • Dysfunction

• Being a figurehead for those with family members in prison is somewhat new for me. Something I've discovered since my father's incarceration is that the prison system is broken. My first-hand experiences have taught me that reform needs to happen sooner than later. I'm most interested in mentoring children with parents in prison. When a parent is sentenced to a jail term, the child is sentenced to the same time to be spent without a mother or father. No child should suffer a stigma or lack support and guidance because of the sins of a parent.

  

  Kambri Crews
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• Fashion, leader of a chatt'ring train, Whom man for his own hurt permits to reign Who shifts and changes all things but his shape, And would degrade her vot'ry to an ape, The fruitful parent of abuse and wrong, Holds a usurp'd dominion o'er his tongue, There sits and prompts him with his own disgrace, Prescribes the theme, the tone, and the grimace, And when accomplish'd in her wayward school, Calls gentleman whom she has made a fool.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • School
  • Fashion

• I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Remember

• You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Done
  • Food
  • Firsts

• 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
  • Republican
  • Democrat
  • Raised

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