Best Parent Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.”

Ifs World Believe Children Jobs Parent Pawns

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“When I was young, my family didn't go on outings to the circus or trips to Disneyland. We couldn't afford them. Instead, we stayed in our small rural West Texas town, and my parents took us to cemeteries.”

Young Parent Goes On My Family Towns West Texas Circus Cemetery Disneyland West Texas

Author:Jenny Lawson

“I got into acting in high school mainly because I wasn't doing anything else and started to hit a few bumps in the road. And there was a conference with my parents who said either you find something to do with your time or we will. And so, I don't know why I thought this was the thing to do, but I went to audition for the school play.”

Knows Said Play School Parent Acting High School Things To Do Auditions Conferences Bumps School Plays Bumps In The Road

Author:Matt Letscher

“I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.”

Mean Parent Harry Potter Potters Dvds

Author:Matthew Lewis

“I'm really confident. I had a perfect childhood. I had perfect parents and grandparents. They just love me, simply. So I have no fears.”

Parent Perfect Childhood Grandparent No Fear Have No Fear Parents And Grandparents Perfect Parents Just Love Me

Author:Melanie Laurent

“It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.”

Needs Helping Kids School Easy Parent Community Blame Library Agents Disorder Urban Deficit Planners School Library

Author:Richard Louv

“Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.”

Children Real Parent Absolutes Royal Philip Royal Family Real Intelligence

Author:Lord Mountbatten

“Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.”

Kids Lying Parent Keys Scary Scary Things

Author:Rob Mariano

“Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.”

Children Parent Growing Up Growing Only Child Montreal Loving Parents

Author:Rudolph A. Marcus

“I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.”

Want Parent Support Succeed Prove University Oxford Support You Oxford University

Author:Samantha Morton

“I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.”

Thinking Kind Play Happens Parent Natural Passionate Intense Progression

Author:Jodie Foster

“My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anticolonial movement.”

Father Parent Sides Movement Involved Mets My Family Kenya

Author:Tom Morello

“Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?”

People Ifs Thinking Want Parent Minutes Pure Including Dinner Tonight Unimportant Pure Love Menus Loving Parents

Book:Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss

Source: Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss

“Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!”

Ifs Trying Stills Facts Feelings Used Parent Mom Proud Band My Mom One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.”

Firsts Persons Parent Happened College Dad Band My Family My Dad Singers Harvard First Person

Author:Dean Norris

“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”

Years Bigs Mother Father House Parent Born Cooks County Big Houses Chauffeurs Norfolk

Author:Paul Nurse

“My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.”

School Parent Effort University Aspiration Wealthy Academic Supportive

Author:Paul Nurse

“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'”

Thinking Wells Kind Children Guy Parent Interest Loses Five Brother Pressure Load Eldest

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.”

Parent Very Good Staying Somewhere Else Rebellious Older Sister

Author:Frances O'Connor

“I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.”

Thinking Men Stills Two Parent Worry He Man Depends Politician Income Pins Breadwinner

Author:Frances O'Grady

“Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.”

Knows Parent Economy Failing Tolerate Turkeys Menus

Author:Jamie Oliver

“You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.”

Thinking Knows World Parent Lucky Worthy Oscars Best Parents

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments: educating, innovating and rebuilding for our children's future. Building an economy to last, from the middle class up, not from the billionaires down.”

Children Jobs Lasts Parent Class Economy Modern Middle Building Understood Our Children Investment Middle Class Grandparent Billionaire Rebuilding Parents And Grandparents

Author:Martin O'Malley

“In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my parents' discouragement was for my own protection, and I'm really close to them now, but they didn't understand that there is value in this. That's because they didn't know.”

Knows Bigs Values Parent My Own Goes On Higher Protection Household Asian Discouragement Higher Education

Author:Sandra Oh

“What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?”

Ifs World Parent Wealth Upbringing Contributing

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.”

Shows Kids School Parent Clear Students Research Connections Performances Priorities Nutrition

Author:Jared Polis

“The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.”

Jobs Sports Parent Water Conversation Weekend

Author:Kal Penn

“Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.”

Book Enough Funny Parent Son Lovers Advantage Critics Obvious Titles

Author:Jack Paar

“There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.”

Knows Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Generations Adults

Author:Richard Louv

“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.”

Years Two Moving Left Parent Four Growing College Products Horror Areas Boxes Founders Dylan Juniors Non Stop Bay Area Junior Year

Author:Aaron Levie

“My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.”

Knows Kids Parent Poor Teach Youngsters

Author:Alan Ladd

“My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.”

States Parent Born Grew Grew Up Brazil

Author:Arto Lindsay

“Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.”

Sometimes Parent Laughing Therapeutic

Author:Brie Larson

“My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.”

Want Giving I Can Parent Being The Best Giving Back

Author:Diana Lopez

“It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.”

Thinking Dream Kids Parent Team Epitome Nicaragua

Author:Diana Lopez

“I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.”

Ifs Parent Mistake Thousand Partners Bad Parent

Author:Diane Lane

“My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They told me to make sure that you are happy.”

Wells Parent Love Is What You Love

Author:Dylan Lauren

“My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.”

Girl Names Parent Inspired Saved Bob Masculine Dylan

Author:Dylan Lauren

“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.”

Firsts Bigs Winning Parent Break Gone Lucky University Scholarship Cambridge University Education Cambridge University

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's not the life of a lot of my friends.”

Kids Hate Parent My Friends Horrible Relate Angst

Author:Ana Ortiz

“I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.”

Years Firsts Three Parent Four Fit Six Instruments Seven Guitar Eight Four Years Playing Guitar

Author:Chord Overstreet

“My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.”

People Giving Children Two Hard Parent Dog Brother Hard Work Dad Comfortable My Dad Dna Two Brothers Comfortable Life

Author:David Oyelowo

“You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.”

Want Looks Light Parent Accepting Proud Negative Look Up

Author:Adepero Oduye

“If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.”

Ifs Two Play Parent Fire Adults Standing

Author:Cat Power

“I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.”

Parent Clever

Author:Mikhail Prokhorov

“Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me.”

Ifs Knows Feels Felt Parent Responsibility My Family Died Blame

Author:Mikhail Prokhorov

“When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.”

Parent Raised Classic Classic Movie

Author:Sara Paxton

“I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.”

Used Parent Views Used To Be Dysfunctional Family

Author:Tamora Pierce

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Film Parent Walks Effects Wind Huge Adults Eight Dinner Brilliant Kurosawa

Author:Ann Patchett

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