Parent Quotes

• Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived as entertainment, but if love is involved with sexuality it's seen as pornographic and is not acceptable.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Different
  • Violence
  • Tolerance

• Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my kids, my husband and my family. One thing I really wanna do is being there for my kids, be part of my siblings and my parents.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Husband

• My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.

  

  Caterina Murino
  • Brother
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Trying
  • Study
  • Students

• I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Book
  • Magic
  • Poor

• A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Kids
  • Parent
  • Produce

• 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
  • Children
  • Unhappy
  • Contemplating

• Our rule is: If it makes the parent laugh, and the kid asks why, that can't be an uncomfortable conversation.

  

  Dan Povenmire
  • Parent
  • Conversation
  • Uncomfortable

• The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Sick
  • Lying
  • Drug

• My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Parent
  • Worked
  • Factories

• When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

  

  Mem Fox
  • Children
  • Reading
  • Parent

• Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Baby
  • Generation
  • Cases

• If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Effort

• You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Love
  • Way
  • Resent

• I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.

  

  David Toop
  • Single
  • Suicide
  • Happen

• There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Secret
  • Parent

• Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Baby
  • Parent
  • Strikes

• I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • Parent
  • Months

• Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Happy
  • Child
  • Parent

• As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

  

  Susan Cain
  • Children
  • Need
  • Watch

• I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Interesting

• The great task of life is transmission: the task of transmitting the essential tools and graces of life from our parents to our children

  

  George Will
  • Children
  • Grace
  • Tradition

• All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Proud
  • Parent

• My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

  

  Rupert Penry-Jones
  • Thinking
  • Actors
  • Rejection

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