Parent Quotes

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

What I've learned about being a parent is how much you sort of secretly learn from everyone else and how valuable it is.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.

They say the death of a parent puts you in time because that means there's now no generation standing between you and ordinary death: you're next. I don't buy it.

It is always fragile, being a parent.

For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

It hurts real bad to have that protection barrier between parent and child.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.

Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.

Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.