Top 55 Parental Quotes

In this post, you will find great Parental Quotes from famous people, such as Nancy Gibbs, Marianne Williamson, Alec Baldwin, James E. Faust, Russell M. Nelson. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.

Nancy Gibbs

All of us wish we’d had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.

Marianne Williamson

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

Alec Baldwin

One of the most difficult parental challenges is to appropriately discipline children. Child rearing is so individualistic. Every child is different and unique. What works with one may not work with another.

James E. Faust

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Russell M. Nelson

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Arabella Weir

As Minister for Women and Equalities, I introduced shared parental leave, extended flexible working rights and won government support to bring in gender pay gap reporting. I’m not going to lie: it was a constant battle.

Jo Swinson

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Diane Abbott

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

Eric Metaxas

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

Diane Cilento

When families are strong and stable, so are children – showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong – either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship – the impact on a child’s later life can be devastating.

Iain Duncan Smith

On my albums, it’s as though the parental advisory is built in.

Marilyn Manson

We need to do more to support working families, like guarantee access to paid sick and parental leave and make sure every parent has access to quality, affordable child care.

Tom Perez

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

LZ Granderson

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It’s not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

Donna Shalala

Some people don’t need parental commitment, they will still come out great, but for others, parents can be critical in providing moral and academic guidance.

Amy Chua

There’s a good amount of research out there that shows generous parental leave policies have a significant positive impact on employee retention and morale.

Christine Tsai

‘Sesame Street’ is awesome – not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

Rachel Sklar

I debuted in WWE right around the time when the ‘Attitude Era’ ended and WWE programming switched to Parental Guidance. Back then, we had one champion, and if you weren’t the champion or the challenger, securing television time was often challenging.

Natalya Neidhart

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty – again, not a large number.

Malcolm Gladwell

I am a pro-choice Republican. But there are some areas – late-term abortions and parental notification – I’d be open minded to.

Phil Scott

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

David Lammy

There’s no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it’s hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of ‘Great Expectations,’ even among the minor characters.

David Nicholls

Some people are just self-motivated – my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

Amy Chua

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

Deeyah Khan

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

Diane Cilento

There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.

Gad Saad

There are parental concerns when one’s daughter joins films.

Soha Ali Khan

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Bill O’Reilly

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Ivan Lendl

There is a strange kind of parental pride when ‘Topdog’ ends up on Broadway, or ‘Elaine Stritch.’

George C. Wolfe

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

Franz Boas

To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Grace Jones

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys’ football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

Zhang Xin

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids’ yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing.

Shawn Amos

I didn’t have parents, so I lived in people’s homes… And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

John Lone

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We’re rerunning the relationship they were in together and we’re rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

Kenny Loggins

In our family, the men have always stood at the head, true patriarchs that take the lead, teach, and live their lives as examples… Women have a significant role as helpers to our husbands and co-counsels in the parental equation.

Alveda King

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I really feel that most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you’ve worked at them. Making children do something hard can, in the long run, be a great parental service.

Amy Chua

For me, my ‘X’ replaced the white slave master name of ‘Little’ which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

Malcolm X

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.

Jamie Bell

Never mess with other people’s kids. You will never win. It’s the child’s word against yours and they have parental reinforcements as back-up. You just can’t triumph.

Konnie Huq

‘Parental Guidance’ combines comedy and pathos in the best way.

Billy Crystal

I just always play these really extreme characters – they’ve all come with parental guidance stickers on them.

Zawe Ashton

We have lost sight of nature‘s role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can’t go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.

Gordon Neufeld

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

Julius Erving

Being transparent about parental leave and pay policies will help build a workplace culture where men also feel supported in taking on their fair share of caring responsibilities.

Jo Swinson

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.

Jill Lepore

A strong police presence keeps individuals involved in ‘street life’ from triggering the most severe penalties of the law by providing a surrogate for the self-control and parental oversight that they lack.

Heather Mac Donald

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It’s an issue for men and women.

Quentin Bryce

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child’s peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

Steven Pinker

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother’s emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

Anna Freud

As for the American child’s classic problem – too much mother, too little father – that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

Gloria Steinem

Top 55 Parental Quotes

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