Parent Quotes

The moments that you share with a person do not stop when that person is not in your life anymore.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.

Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.

I was an only child, a very late child, born to parents who were both 39 at the time, which was very late back then. That kind of confirmed my sense of being the center of the universe, which I guess every child feels – children and poets both tend to feel.

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I’m not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They’re the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

There’s a part in every person that has a fake self. We’ve had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.