Top 100 The Parents Quotes
#1. We are in the trophy generation.Give them a trophy for 23rd place.That makes the parents happy
Tom Izzo
#2. When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.
Adam Sandler
#3. Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.
Louise Hart
#4. I think every family has that moment when the parents realize they need help and think, Oh my gosh. We cannot do this all alone. Every woman has that panic at some point in motherhood when you feel completely overwhelmed and constantly tired.
Nia Long
#5. The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.
Nancy Lublin
#6. If my parents didn't push me and didn't support education, I probably wouldn't be here today ... Regardless of whatever they went through and how they may have been treated, they felt education was important. So, it's easier when you have the parents who support it, rather than those who don't.
Anne Sullivan Macy
#7. For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.
Chris Pine
#8. Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.
E.L. Doctorow
#9. Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died in infancy. Swedenborg ensures the parents of these infants that 'All children whether born within or outside of the church, are adopted by the Lord and become Angels'.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#10. When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.
Mona Simpson
#11. In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
John Ruskin
#12. In many ways a child has actually re-educated the parents upon arrival into their lives - when else do adults take the time to appreciate acorns or clouds?
Ian-Anthony Finnimore
#13. Once a baby is born, the parents have around one and a half decades to build his or her character and fill the mind with vigour and virtues.
Abhijit Naskar
#14. It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.
Harrison Schmitt
#15. There are days when I still wake up angry, and no one handles it perfectly all the time, but honestly, I feel lucky to have diabetes because of the people I get to meet. The families, the kids, the parents, the other athletes. If I could pick a club to be in, this would definitely be it.
Charlie Kimball
#16. Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation with degreed children and still broke, had thought-convinced themselves-that the poverty of their lives could be eliminated by 'professionalisation'.
Panashe Chigumadzi
#17. Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.
James MacArthur
#18. Happy Days was about a family ... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.
Tom Bosley
#19. Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.
James Salter
#20. When a child does bad things, the parents are always going to love their child even if they do something bad.
Selena
#21. I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.
Ellen DeGeneres
#22. We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.
Twiggy
#23. When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption
Gregg Easterbrook
#24. Soccer was the first sport that my parents put me in, and ultimately, all the parents kind of came over to my mom and were, 'We think Channing would be better at football ... We love him, he's really great, but he's kind of hurting our children.' I was just a little wild.
Channing Tatum
#25. I grew up in an environment where the onus of raising a child was not on the parents alone but of the entire community. The logic is in that a child who becomes a burden or an armed robber becomes a threat not only to the parents but to a whole society!
Nana Awere Damoah
#26. Kids lose their trust in the parents they love, but still accept them, so they end up not trusting themselves anymore.
Natsuo Kirino
#27. In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.
Maggie Gallagher
#28. 'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.
John De Mol Jr.
#29. One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.
Lyn Nofziger
#30. In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.
Gregory Bateson
#31. The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
Laurens Van Der Post
#32. Joy is hidden in sorrow and sorrow in joy. If we try to avoid sorrow at all costs, we may never taste joy, and if we are suspicious of ecstasy, agony can never reach us either. Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.
Henri Nouwen
#33. It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.
Anthony Horowitz
#34. I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.
Caitlin Flanagan
#35. Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.
Aeschylus
#36. Plage, various seaside chairs and stools supported the parents
Vladimir Nabokov
#37. I have dogs in my house and much like teenagers at some point, they leave the parents. Even though they're in the same house, they live independently. I think that's how I live with the Chihuahuas.
George Lopez
#38. What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived
Carl Jung
#39. Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.
Earl Wilson
#40. Rock is always about rebelling against the parents.
D'arcy Wretzky
#41. And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
Michael Haneke
#42. You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
Marian Wright Edelman
#43. I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.
Weili Dai
#44. Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while the parents reside there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.
St. George Tucker
#45. The parents sat round watching, and in their crass faces - faces not harsh or evil, only blunted by ignorance and mean virtues - you could see a solemn approval, a solemn pleasure in the spectacle of sin rebuked.
George Orwell
#46. What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.
Franz Grillparzer
#47. Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide
#48. The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.
Raul Esparza
#49. Many experts are concerned that the parents who need safe havens the most are the least likely to use them.
Wil S. Hylton
#50. Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.
Mary Pipher
#51. When the child does not conform to this image, the parents often need help in adapting their behavior to the reality - they
Andrew Solomon
#52. My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn ... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.
Bob Feller
#53. As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead
#54. By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did I do wrong?" What you did wrong was, you were never there. You had the kid as a status symbol, that's what went wrong. And you're paying the price for it.
Andrew Dice Clay
#55. It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.
Jenny McCarthy
#57. To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
Zendaya
#58. (as in any family, the tendency is always to place the blame on others, and to state adamantly that the parents didn't know what they were doing when they made that drastic decision).
Paulo Coelho
#59. I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.
Patricia Polacco
#60. If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.
Vincent Cassel
#61. Both my parents were immigrants, as were many of their friends, the parents of the children with whom I grew up. Of course I respect and admire immigrants and their undeniable contributions to America, as we all should.
Jan C. Ting
#62. It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
Jaime Pressly
#63. Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.
Lionel Richie
#64. I'm gonna lose the parents then I'm gonna fuck that hot ass again in every room before we leave." "Yeah,
A.E. Via
#65. Treat each player as your own son/daughter if you can ... the parents have invested in you.
Henry Iba
#66. The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Confucius
#67. Because I'm good with me & god, it's the "between me & the parents" part I still have problems with.
Wade Kelly
#68. Relatively many autists are first-born children. There is also a pretty widespread conviction that the parents of autists are somehow different - for instance, many of them are very serious people or people who are themselves under some sort of strain.
Nikolaas Tinbergen
#69. The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.
Susie Orbach
#70. K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
Bill Gates
#71. My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
Barack Obama
#72. Coming from a family where the parents had been together for 40 years, you never imagine that divorce is going to happen to you.
Keeley Hawes
#73. A child who's got the habit will start reading under the covers with a flashlight," she said. "If the parents are smart, they'll forbid the child to do this, and thereby encourage her. Otherwise she'll find a peer who also has the habit, and the two of them will keep it a secret between them.
Jonathan Franzen
#74. Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully ... There are millions of treacherous moments.
David Sheff
#75. You could have Charles Manson as a father and end up a saint; you could have Mother Theresa as a mother and end up a serial killer. At the end of the day, you define the person you become. Not a strand of DNA. Not the parents you didn't get to choose. You." I
Julie Johnson
#76. The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.
Charles Bukowski
#77. Do gargoyles really take their babies on flights?"
"Every chance we get." Hugh grinned. "In some clans, the parents toss 'em off a cliff."
She shuddered. "And there for a while I thought we were the worst parents ever.
Thea Harrison
#78. My kids have played soccer and baseball and basketball, and the parents who come to games are always saying and doing things that are just wildly inappropriate.
Jeff Garlin
#79. Nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame
Francois Lelord
#80. I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.
Thom Yorke
#81. You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.
Tommy Bowden
#82. All beasts are happy,
For, when they die,
Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements;
But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell.
Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me!
No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer
That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven.
Christopher Marlowe
#83. Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou
#84. peculiar, or sad, and yet still deserve a place within the circle of familial love. The parents would thus have created an invaluable wellspring of courage from which those children would eventually be able to draw to sustain the confessions and direct conversations of adult life. Rabih
Alain De Botton
#85. Is that why the parents of dead children spend half the rest of their lives in darkened rooms? Are they hoping the ghosts will return with all their original power? She
Martin Amis
#86. Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.
David R. Brower
#87. The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.
Alan Keyes
#88. Whereas in childhood ... it was the parents' judgement that mattered to the child, later on the situation becomes reversed: it is then that the opinions of one's grown-up children become what matters, as well as their kindness.
Iris Origo
#89. The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.
Steven Spielberg
#90. A name with meaning could bring up a child,
Taking the child out of the parents' hands.
Better a meaningless name, I should say,
As leaving more to nature and happy chance.
Name children some names and see what you do.
Robert Frost
#91. A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to
Hiro Mashima
#92. If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.
Shiv Khera
#93. When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!
Fulton J. Sheen
#94. Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Roger Moore
#96. I've noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.
Dave Barry
#97. As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.
Jay Roach
#98. Sometimes it is very difficult to keep in mind the fact that the parents, too, have reasons for what they do
have reasons, locked in the depths of their personalities, for their inability to love, to understand, to give of themselves to their children.
Virginia Mae Axline
#99. Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Mary Calderone
#100. I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
Wyclef Jean
