Quotes of: Good-parent Keyword

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Ami Bera

The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents or a silly coach.

Bobby Orr

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

Caroline B. Cooney

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.

Fred G. Gosman

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

James Wolk

I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.

Emily Bett Rickards

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Franz Kafka

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

Frank Pittman

When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

Celine Dion

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

C.G. Jung

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

Chris Martin

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Charles J. Sykes

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

Idina Menzel

I was fat because my parents were a little fat themselves at that point in their lives, and I ate what they ate.

Jami Attenberg

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

J.X. Burros

My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.

Deepika Padukone

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

Diane Paulus

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.

Daniela Ruah

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 heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

Elizabeth Edwards