Parent Quotes - Page 49

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.

A large family makes you accept sharing your parents.

You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have a gatling gun for a mouth, and if that's a diary you're producing from your cleavage, I'm leaving.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

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

I'm, like, the biggest fan ever of 'Arrested Development.' To be a part of it is incredible. Same goes for 'Parenthood.'

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.

I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.

~[My son] is at that age now where he's so loving and says the sweetest things to me. Of course, I still get karate chops and all those other sort of things, too.~

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing. No health insurance, so if something happened I was screwed. I was lucky my parents had money and my brother was willing to support me for a long time. Once I started doing standup, I had an income, and that was amazing to me.

Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.

Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

The best gift is giving from your heart