Having No Parents Quotes

#1. You know, one of the tiny little perks that comes from having no parents is that you never have to worry about walking in on them ... you just took that away from me!

S.L.J. Shortt

#2. The very concept of imitation is suspect to begin with (if children are general imitators, why don't they imitate their parents' habit of sitting quietly in airplanes?),

Steven Pinker

#3. Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

George Smoot

#4. Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.

Lisa See

#5. I'm going for it. Every part of my body says to jump and fly, no matter how hard voices like Shay and my parents try to ground me. I understand their realism, but I don't want to look back and regret not taking the plunge.

Krista Ritchie

#6. Her parents had gone from a couple who would be different, who would be better than anyone, who were determined to be better than most, to a couple who would be different because they were worse.

Lorrie Moore

#7. No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.

Rhea Perlman

#8. Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. Technology moves so fast and social media moves so fast because everyone wants the new thing, but also, everyone wants to be where their parents are not. Once the mom got a Facebook and a Twitter and an Instagram, I don't want to be there anymore.

Ansel Elgort

#10. To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.

Ernest Kurtz

#11. I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

Gretchen Carlson

#12. As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

Elfriede Jelinek

#13. A corporal, who had lost an eye after two years on the Russian front, ascertained before we marched that his wife, his two children, and both of his parents had been killed. He had one cigarette. He shared it with me.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. They hid the keys to the car, but I found them. That month, I drove my stepdad's Thunderbird Super Coupe into Manhattan every day, and I would crank Cypress Hill as I flew around the city, racing the taxis.

Danny Masterson

#15. We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

Paul Prudhomme

#16. Obviously, for the majority of parents and certainly me you gain a million worlds when you have a child. Certainly, it's the thing that's changed my life and made me unbelievably happy.

Kate Winslet

#17. The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home.

Tina Fey

#18. If our society were truly to appreciate the significance of children's emotional ties throughout the first years of life, it would no longer tolerate children growing up or parents having to struggle in situations which could not possibly nourish healthy growth.

Stanley Greenspan

#19. Certainly I see no reason why society should prevent grieving parents from having a baby cloned from the cells of a dead child if they wish.

Gregory Benford

#20. We tried to be good parents ... but there's a point at which you give up trying."
"No, there's not," Connor tells her. Then he turns to go, leaving them with the worst punishment of all: having to live with themselves.

Neal Shusterman

#21. No one I knew in Sydney was thinking about how they might come to America and become a movie star. That would be considered delusions of grandeur. My parents were supportive, though. They just told me to keep at it as long as I was having fun.

Luke Bracey

#22. There's no doubt having an autistic child represents tremendous challenges for both the children and their parents, but in my experience, it has brought me closer to my family and has given me an appreciation for how the human brain develops and the uniqueness of each child it afflicts.

Manny Alvarez

#23. You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Ann Patchett

#24. OrPhAnS,are the one who has no parents,But have many parents.But having ones parents is more valuable than the other having many parents(it doesn't depend on numbers,but the feelings matters).

SIDDWIN S SHETTY

#25. I'm the Cool One," she told herself. "Somebody give me some tequila because I'll totally drink it. And there's no way you're going to find me later having a panic attack in your parents' bathroom. Who wants to French-kiss?

Rainbow Rowell

#26. You can stay here with me. My parents wouldn't care. We can pretend we're sixteen and having quiet, dirt sex so no one hears us.

J. Lynn

#27. My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.

August Wilson

#28. As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.

John Sulston

#29. How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

Bill Moyers

#30. I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

Lisa Vanderpump

#31. One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to.

Kelly Jones

#32. I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'

Jen Kirkman

#33. Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.

Ron Rubin

#34. As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

Gregory Hines

#35. I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists.

Noel Wells

#36. I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet during the interview, they said to bring me back when I was older.

Jason Fuchs

#37. Constant reading pulled me away from the world of my childhood, the world of my parents.

Maureen Corrigan

#38. My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.

Richard Rogers

#39. I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

Jon Krakauer

#40. I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.

Karen Hughes

#41. And if one day there's distance
Between your hand and mine,
When our hands join once again,
My heart and soul will shine.

Glyncora Murphy

#42. Countless communities have virtually outlawed unstructured outdoor nature play, often because of the threat of lawsuits, but also because of a growing obsession with order. Many parents now believe outdoor play is verboten even when it is not; perception is nine-tenths of the law.

Richard Louv

#43. Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

#44. I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.

Molly Crabapple

#45. I want to be a good example for my son. That's the best way to parent - to be the example of what you want to see in them. That's definitely how my parents parented and how my grandparents parented. And it works.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#46. I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.

Missy Higgins

#47. Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all goes according to the natural order of things, siblings will know us longer than our parents, longer than our spouses and friends. Lord Westdale to Duncan

Kieran Kramer

#48. Our parents' death broke his sense of wonder. My left-brained brother, who once had dreams of saving the world, now laughs at anyone who tries.

Lauren DeStefano

#49. When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. p.276

M.L. Stedman

#50. Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words 'to father' have such a different meaning from the words 'to mother'.

Claire Fuller

#51. If it's something you can't say in front of your parents then it's probably worth saying.

Max Redford

#52. I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.

Laurie Graham

#53. Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Laurence J. Peter

#54. Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.

Lauren Willig