When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
Lindsay Lohan
ParentFameWholeOffTrapThrown
My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.
Mona Simpson
MotherParentSpeechTeachTalkHer
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
Victor Garber
GoodThinkParentMoralsIntention
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
Lewis Thomas
FamilyParentLooksWhalesGenes
When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.
Loudon Wainwright III
ParentHouseDownCardsWholeDies
The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
Tea Leoni
ThinkParentYouListenPainful
I think the key to being a good parent is to individualize your love for each child.
Ken Jeong
LoveGoodChildThinkKeyParent
As natural as it is for a parent to talk about their child, it is for me to talk about my product.
Joy Mangano
ChildMeParentProductTalkAbout
Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.
Samantha Bond
ParentLossYouNobodyPrepare
I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
Kiefer Sutherland
FatherDaughterGodWifeParentShe
I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife. You know what I mean?
Josh Homme
WifeGuitarParentTryingYouBack
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
Rachel Tucker
HomeMeTheatreParentWingsSay
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.
James Fenimore Cooper
AgeKnowledgeOpportunitiesParent
As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.
Jon Porter
ParentLovedCongressUnderstand
I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
P. J. O'Rourke
ChildrenParentYellingCommunicate
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
Herbert Read
CultureQualityStepProcessParent
Lily's really together - she's a sharp kid and one of the smartest human beings I have ever met. Whatever she is doing, if she needs any advice, I'm there for her. Kids are going to make their own decisions, but I guess that the only thing you can do as a parent is to offer support. And I do.
Johnny Depp
TogetherSupportParentAdviceDoing
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
Nancy Gibbs
FamilyChildrenParentYouCrisis
Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.
Greg Boyle
ChangePeopleParentGrowYoung
As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.
Diane Keaton
BestManThinkParentYouI Can
It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
Jackie Walorski
FutureMoneyGovernmentParentYou
Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
George Osborne
PoliticsParentExcusesTwoOff
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.
Drew Barrymore
GoodDreamsChildThinkParentKind
If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
J. K. Simmons
ParentEnoughYouPhoneAliveLucky
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quotes about Parent