Quotes tagged ‘Parents’

“When parents fight, the child has a crisis of loyalty.”

— Hawk Ostby, Mark Fergus, Chrisjen Avasarala, Shohreh Aghdashloo, imdb.com

“I assigned mystical qualities to his zipper teeth, his tattered jeans, his flat palms, as if these were not only different from other fathers’ but better, and now that he was in my life, even if it was only once a month, I had not waited in vain. I would be better off than children who’d had fathers…”

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs, vanityfair.com

“When your child falters or fall, be there for them without anger or fear. Take the conditions off of your love.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“Sabrina: Are you kidding? I’d love to meet the Violent Femmes! When? Where? Harvey: Well, they’ll be signing CD’s at Music City in Boston tonight at midnight. Sabrina: Midnight! That’s perfect. I have no conflicting plans. But I still have to ask my aunts. Harvey: Just tell them what I told my paren…”

— Nell Scovell, Harvey Kinkle, Nate Richert, imdb.com

“Damien: [sadly] Well, goodbye, guys. It was nice getting to know you. Stan: You're leaving already? Damien: I have to. My Dad's always on the move. [He walks away sadly.] Stan: Wow, I feel kinda bad for that kid. Kyle: Yeah, just when he was being accepted he has to leave and start over. Stan: Paren…”

— Matt Stone, Trey Parker, Damien Thorn, Matt Stone, imdb.com

“Enough! I'm sorry, Mr. Schue, Ms. Sylvester, but if we wanted to hear mom and dad fight, those of us who still have two parents would just stay home on payday.”

— Brad Falchuk, Finn Hudson, Cory Monteith, imdb.com

“You know, that's the burden of having a parent. They haven't a clue what they're doing. And every mistake they make chips away at us. As we get older, we got to glue the pieces back together. And we can blame them. But here's the thing. They're human. They make mistakes.”

— Steven Canals, Pray Tell, Billy Porter, imdb.com

“You don’t believe in your parents or in magic or even yourself.”

— Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Rumplestiltskin, Robert Carlyle, imdb.com

“Oscar Madison: Your name is Homer? [Shocked upon hearing Speed's real name from the guard] Speed: [Sarcastically] What? You think when I was born my parents named me SPEED?”

— Perry Grant, Dick Bensfield, Oscar Madison, Jack Klugman, imdb.com

“Jerry: It sounds like you're about to say Jacob is your lover. Leonard Smith: No, no, no. Jacob is your mother's lover. I watch them. Sometimes from a chair, sometimes from a closet. Almost always dressed as Superman.”

— Tom Kauffman, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Jerry Smith (voice), Chris Parnell, imdb.com

“I don’t need anyone and nobody needs me. That was the unspoken lesson I learned from my mother growing up.”

— Franki Elliot, vice.com

“My parents could not reach me, not even with all of their love. Many times I saw them break down and cry because they saw that I was such a tormented person.”

— David Berkowitz, ariseandshine.org

“Maybe the mistake we make is thinking our parents will change. And maybe they did a better job than we give them credit for. And maybe there, amid all the crap they dumped on us, are some things worth keeping. Like a passion for something you never knew you had. Or the ability to constantly surround…”

— Matt Tarses, John 'J.D.' Dorian, Zach Braff, imdb.com

“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl i…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“No good person has ever advocated for the senseless separation of kids from their parents.”

— Kumail Nanjiani, twitter.com

“You say 'we'll never make my parent's mistakes.'”

— Taylor Swift, open.spotify.com

“''Child, he said tremulously, ' in the new joys that await thee, never forget how thy father loves thee!'”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“Everyone’s parents have fucked them up in one way or another. This is part of the natural order. It’s the circle of life. Mothers are people—not angels from heaven or Ex Machina error-free service bots. Just because they pushed you out of their vaginal canals does not mean they have all (or any) of…”

— Amy Schumer, amazon.com

“From both my parents, I learned to persevere. But my mother’s extraordinary resilience made her the stronger of the two. I acquired some of her resilience and her felicity, and that inheritance made an enormous difference in my life.”

— John McCain, amazon.com

“Well, everybody's got parents, Jean, even hookers. Remember that TV movie we saw?”

— Rebecca Kirshner, Judd Apatow, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, Harold Weir, Joe Flaherty, imdb.com