Parent Quotes

I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

Russell Baker
- People
- Children
- Family
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

Miguel de Unamuno

As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.

Etgar Keret
I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.

Melissa Bean
- School
- Mother
- Daughter
My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

Michele Lee
- Father
- Artist
- Makeup
Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.

Steve Schirripa
- Mistake
- Answers
- Mines
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

John Lennon The Beatles
- Earth
- Parent
- Pressures
In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well& others are barely able to love them at all.

William P. Young
- Children
- Broken
- Parent