Parents Quotes

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

~ Richard Simmons

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

~ Jim Demint

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

~ Priscilla Presley

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

~ Warwick Davis

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

~ Justin Timberlake

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

~ Liza Minnelli

Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories they shared with me.

~ Geddy Lee

My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.

~ Zach Anner

I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.

~ Nicholas Stoller

Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

~ Kristin Gore

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.

~ Leila Janah

Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.

~ Marvin Olasky

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

~ Anacreon

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

~ George Canning

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

~ Jerry Rice

I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.

~ Laura Dern

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

~ Bill Dedman

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

~ Brooke Shields

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

~ Mike Krzyzewski

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.

~ Shakira

A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

~ Saint Ambrose

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

~ Jane D. Hull

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

~ Plato

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.

~ Virginia Satir

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

~ Ogden Nash

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

~ Benjamin Spock

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

~ Christy Turlington

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

~ Gilbert Highet

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

~ Jennifer Aniston

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

~ Chelsea Clinton

Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

~ Joyce Meyer

Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed out, when you are poor, when your life is in chaos. And giving them some of the tools to be better parents, to whittle away at that parenting gap, gives those kids a much better starting point in life.

~ Nicholas Kristof

We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

~ James E. Faust

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

~ Michele Bachmann

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

~ Eric Mccormack

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

~ Jane Fonda

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

~ Barbara Bush

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

~ Amy Chua

Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.

~ Bernie Siegel

I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

~ Alexandra Fuller