Quotes of: Good-parent Keyword

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Noah Webster

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

Olesya Rulin

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers.

Patrick Chan

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

Phil Donahue

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.

Phil Donahue

My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.

Pierre Omidyar

I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.

P. J. O'Rourke

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Phyllis Schlafly

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Quintilian

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Quentin Tarantino

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

Richard Armitage

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

Rodney Atkins

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

Roberto Benigni

You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.

Raymond Kelly

I was lucky I was raised by parents who gave me a lot of sense of self and a lot of confidence in myself.

Sprague Grayden

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

Shiv Khera

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.

Sam Levenson

If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.

Sandra Day O'Connor

My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

Sally Phillips

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

Sharon Stone