Parent Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.”
– Michelle Obama

“As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.”
– Michelle Obama

“Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don’t cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That’s going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.”
– Michelle Obama

“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.”
– Mignon McLaughlin

“Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.”
– Mike Krzyzewski

“I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don’t have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.”
– Mindy Kaling

“I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.”
– Norman Wisdom

“It’s interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, ‘You shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that.’ But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That’s why you have this kind of connection.”
– Novak Djokovic

“Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore, and that’s what parents were created for.”
– Ogden Nash

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.”
– Ogden Nash

“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”
– Peter Ustinov

“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”
– Plato

“Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.”
– Plautus

“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”
– Pope John Paul II

“I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.”
– Princess Diana

“My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.”
– Quentin Tarantino

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller

“I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.”
– Randy Harrison

“‘Handsome’ means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.”
– Richard Chamberlain

“There are illegitimate parents, but I don’t believe there are any illegitimate children.”
– Rick Warren

“I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.”
– Rita Rudner

“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“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

“Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.”
– Russell Baker

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