Top 60 Parental Quotes

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.

People who end up in our prisons tend to come from the most difficult backgrounds. They did not have the parental support as they grew up, as many of us enjoyed, and they struggle when they leave prison.

When we used to watch some BBC kids‘ shows it felt like some of the presenters were parental figures, we wanted to be their cheeky uncles really, their fun uncles, and speak to them on their level.

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.

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

We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four weeks of parental leave specifically for fathers will help tackle the assumption that parenting is one of the ‘girl jobs‘.

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.

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.

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

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.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what’s best. I don’t think that’s necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.

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.

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.

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.

I’ve sat down with Donald Trump in an hour-and-a-half-long meeting with several of the representatives; he was very engaging. He listened to our concerns and our thoughts. I find him very parental.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family’s financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

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.

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

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one’s son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.

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

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

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

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

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that’s censorship.

We just believe when you have parental involvement, we are going to get a better bang for the buck, so to speak. And we also encourage parents to speak with their young people about the importance of safe driving. And also remind them, too, they cannot be distracted.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Because my home life was nuts, I didn’t look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me who I am. They took on a parental role. They’re like celebrities or heroes to me.

I’ve solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to – email, browser – and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.

Parental child abduction is child abuse.

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.

I researched children’s rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Shared parental leave is good for dads. Looking after their newborn on their own is a unique learning experience.

The piece of legislation that I’m so excited and delighted to be doing is shared parental leave.

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.

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn’t think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it’s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

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.

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.

The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.

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.

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.

Publishing parental pay benefits will let employers show that they’re family-friendly and enable them to better attract talent, potentially spurring on some very healthy competition.

Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: ‘If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.’ I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God‘s sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids’ heads.