Mean Parent Quotes

#1. Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are very disappointed you have murdered those orphans.

Thomm Quackenbush

#2. Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#3. Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

Samuel Johnson

#4. I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my child through an atmosphere which illuminates, magnifies, and at the same time refines the object to a degree that amounts to a delusion ...

Sara Coleridge

#5. Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

Aristotle.

#6. Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if they oppose him? So the tyrant is a parricide, and little comfort to his old parent.

Plato

#7. So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.

Zach Braff

#8. Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.

Mamie Van Doren

#9. I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff

Zach Braff

#10. I think that every day is a learning experience. I mean, every time I go to a school I learn something else from a teacher or learn something else from a student, I learn something else from a parent. There's so much to know when you talk about education.

David Shuster

#11. In all forms of leadership, whether you are a coach, a CEO, or a parent, there are four words that, when said, can bring out the best in your team, your employees, and your family. I BELIEVE IN YOU. Those four words can mean the difference between a fear of failure and the courage to try.

Mike Krzyzewski

#12. A parenting program should provide time for parents to clarify their own ideas about what it means to be an effective and successful parent.

Timothy Carey

#13. It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

David Cameron

#14. I want people to feel conflicted. I want them to feel for characters they started out hating. I want to start conversations about what it means to be a parent. About the responsibility we bear to ourselves and to each other.

Sian Heder

#15. Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

Edmund Burke

#16. I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

LeBron James

#17. Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

Jody Watley

#18. We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

George H. W. Bush

#19. I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?

Chris Daughtry

#20. Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I am indebted-"
"Don't be.This doesn't mean I like you or your politics any better," Heath said gruffly.

Lisa Kleypas

#21. Maybe I'm more drawn to those kind of parts because they are meaningful to me. I mean, more parent-y ones, I find them interesting to do.

Joan Cusack

#22. I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.

Lionel Shriver

#23. Just because a child doesn't have both parents raising him or her, doesn't mean that child becomes half the person they were meant to be. One wonderful parent can love enough for two, and love will always be the biggest influence in a child's life.

Ron Baratono

#24. My mother's not a political person. She just doesn't want me to be mean ... sometimes I have to be mean. It's like a parent or a teacher. Sometimes for the good of everybody you have to be a little bit strong, a little bit confrontational.

Bill O'Reilly

#25. As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don't have to be perfect. That's the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.

Terry Crews

#26. Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Nina Bawden

#27. I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Laura Linney

#28. You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both ... wealthy in love.

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Eminem

#30. I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?

Josh Homme

#31. 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

#32. I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or would that just be too weird?

Paul Rudnick

#33. I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust.

Brooke Shields

#34. But, Dad ... " She hesitated. "It will mean raising me all over again. It means suffering through my childhood for a third time. No parent should be asked to do that."
Sol managed a smile. "No parent would refuse that, Rachel.

Dan Simmons

#35. God loves his children more than any earthly parent, so think what your kindness to his children means to him.

Henry B. Eyring

#36. Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife.

Stephen J. Cannell

#37. If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents.

Doug Stanhope

#38. There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.

Michael Meade

#39. Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

Sheila Kamerman