Parents Being Parents Quotes

My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water. — Win Butler

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents. — Judy Carter

When I look in the mirror I see my parents' sacrifices being honored. I see the love from which I was created and the power of the human spirit. — Zulay Henao

It started with a simple ring,
You became husband and wife,
You progressed to being parents
And you're still best friends for life. — John Walter Bratton

Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes. — L. Tom Perry

I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn't be vocal in that way. — Mindy Kaling

The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house. — Bonnie Tyler

Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs. — Neneh Cherry

If my parents aren't ignoring me, they're insulting me. I like being ignored better. — P.C. Cast

I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else. — Amelia Warren Tyagi

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take? — E.M. Delafield

The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world — Dean Cavanagh

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together. — J. Cole

I am a father, and I know the feel of being a father. Why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also be happy parents? — Juan Pablo Galavis

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day. — John Bishop

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you. — Natalie Portman

Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying. — Michelle M. Pillow

I learned about being positive from my parents. They're the most positive people I've ever known. — Brendon Urie

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. — Wendy Wasserstein

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made. — M. Russell Ballard

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not. — Molly Crabapple

I always loved being in London and being near my parents. — Sophie Winkleman

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them. — Mariella Frostrup

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on. — David Foster Wallace

It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other. — Anna C. Salter

A great challenge for parents is how to prepare themselves for being successful in advising children. — Eraldo Banovac

The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent. — Charles Barkley

Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed to. It's so important. — Danica McKellar

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested in how they feel and in their point of view. — Haim G. Ginott

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it. — James Denton

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. — Stephen King

One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger. — Anne Roiphe

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life. — Warren Farrell

Parents test our patience more than anyone else ... Being around them keeps you in check ... that's what keeps you humbled. — Nouman Ali Khan

Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents. — Alice Dreger

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes. — Stephen Furst

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. — Orson Scott Card

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead. — T-Pain

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me. — Marlee Matlin

You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'. — Daryl Gregory

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house. — David Suzuki

My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible. — Judith Martin

Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were. — Les Wexner

When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?' — Kevin Harrington

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right. — Adam Giles

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given. — Guru Nanak

Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable. — Noah Baumbach

I had chosen to be an adult and I didn't want any charity - not even from my parents. This was one thing I was determined about. — Preeti Shenoy

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death. — Mallory Ortberg

My parents think so. And my parents have a very annoying habit of being right, — Ally Carter

But who could teach daughters how to fly? Parents were by definition earthbound, grub eaters, feet in their own coffins, by dint of being parents. — Gregory Maguire

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents. — Lily Rabe

A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents. — Hyman Rickover

Being Jewish means loving something that's gone. Your parents, your grandparents, the place they came from. Jerusalem itself. Creation. — Michael Davidow

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there. — Louise Erdrich

Nice try, mister, but being cute won't save you. — C.J. Milbrandt

I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes. — Robert Smith

My thoughts turned back to my parents and their apparent penchant for being big ol' liars. — Rachel Hawkins

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's. — Craig Ferguson

I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all. — Marie Helvin

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business. — Haley Joel Osment

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. — Mignon McLaughlin

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

My parents have been married multiple times each, so the idea of being committed to somebody was scary. — Jenny Mollen

I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents. — Dawn Fraser

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor. — Veruschka Von Lehndorff

To be American is to long for whatever our parents fled. — Colin Quinn

How to advise parents for being successful in raising children still
remains an important unsolved problem. — Eraldo Banovac

It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family. — Antoniette Costa

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being. — Tom Brady

Being Latin parents makes us extremely expressive with our affections. — Gloria Estefan

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else. — Douglas Kennedy

I think my parents raised me well. And I'm pretty straight edge. All my friends make fun of me for being straight edge. — Ansel Elgort

Being gay is harder than being black. I didn't have to come out black. I didn't have to tell my parents about what its like to be black. — Wanda Sykes

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them. — Tammin Sursok

It's not always easy being her daughter.'
I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are. — Sarah Dessen

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence. — Rachel Johnson

I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know? — Kenneth Logan

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children. — Gordon Neufeld

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. — Diana Lopez

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star. — Shania Twain

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. — Beryl Markham

My parents are proud of me being an actor. — Matthew Lewis

Not a word. Being a hypocrite is the only way people who were once teenagers can be parents without going out of their damn minds. — DiscontentedWinter

I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures. — Flea

Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings. — Danielle Steel

My humor came from seeing my parents have sex, smoke weed, my mom being naked - just weird hippie stuff, twisted R-rated humor. — Shia Labeouf