Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.
Michelle PfeifferThe problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLintPsychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence PeterParents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane HowardLittle League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi BerraThe parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare
Henry Jackson Van DykeI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur RimbaudParents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith MartinHi, we are Sum 41 and we're just something your parents will never understand
Deryck WhibleyI've told them they have to support England and if they don't, they won't be getting a ticket. [on his parents watching England]
Sajid MahmoodI wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania TwainIf I had to choose between wealth and a united family, I would 1,000 per cent have preferred my parents to stay together.
Minnie DriverThe question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'
J A SchumpeterThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIIIRather than just a binary choice between grammar schools for some and secondary modern for others, it is far better to have wider diversity in schools and greater choice for parents
David DavisSaving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Winston ChurchillBeing an MP is the sort of job all working class parents want for their children - clean, indoor and no heavy lifting.
Dianne AbbottIt certainly seems contradictory of the [local] council to be encouraging parents to stop using their cars to take children to school but at the same time taking so long about the safe routes initiative.
Sally WhittakerAll that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
Catherine Zeta JonesThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric HofferNot being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.
Chris EubankFrom birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash
Sophie Tucker'I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.'
Shirley MansonWrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Doris DayParents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John LockeA self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents!
Al GoldsteinIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouFortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be proud and carry myself with dignity.
Susan AntonIf you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. (Opening line, The Catcher in the Rye)
J D SalingerPeople who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon AppelfeldA Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip RothI phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'we saw your movie'. 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?'
Brad PittThe first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence DarrowChildren nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers.
SocratesBrevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea BallouBefore high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
Tatyana AliI didn't understand why he wasn't returning my calls [when her parents split]
Nicole RichieA child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy GrahamParents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.
Peter UstinovOliver Letwin has insulted the parents, teachers and pupils of every state school in the country.
Stephen TwiggParents 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 FullerIt's the sort of thing parents might chant encouragingly to a child slow on the potty-training [on Obama's campaign slogan of 'Yes we can']
Christopher HitchensMy parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
Kelly RipaThe beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney HarrisOne of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
Tiger WoodsMy heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael JordanThe excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas HardyMy name is Brian Green by birth. Austin was made up by my parents when I was nine, because there was another Brian Green in the Screen Actors Guild.
Brian Austin GreenAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore VidalI think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people
Joely Fisher
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