Parent Quotes

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent’s sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Maybe I carry a little chip on my shoulder with just how tough it was for my parents to overcome some of those financial situations.

I’m the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, ‘What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?’

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

They don’t want to know. Maybe they realize that their yuppie parents who protested Vietnam have turned on their ideals and are now struggling to buy a Lexus or whatever.