"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
Read quote
3 likes
Parent quotes
Parent
3.9K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Parent
Browse quotes that often appear alongside parent — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Parent quotes (page 39 of 198)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; "Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)"
Read quote
3 likes
"This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop."
Read quote
3 likes
"Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16."
Read quote
3 likes
"I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents."
Read quote
3 likes
"Few parents teach their children how phoney the ads on TV are, how many lies and exaggerations they contain. How could they? These parents were also raised on television ballyhoo."
Read quote
3 likes
"each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents."
Read quote
3 likes
"Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent."
Read quote
3 likes