Parents quotes

“The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology.”
Ray Romano

“Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born, and they start using sleep deprivation to break you.”
Ray Romano

“Good evening. How's it going? Listen, girls... uh... as your father, I feel it incumbent upon me to set the record straight on the validity of the tale which Uncle Chet shared with us this evening. I know that a terrifying story like that coming from the mouth of a recognized authority figure could be traumatizing for kids like yourselves; I...” (continue) (continue reading)
Dan Aykroyd - Roman Craig

“Parenting is an impossible job at any age.”
Harrison Ford

“There's love for your parents, your family, your spouse, your partner, your friends, but the nature of the connection you have with your child, there's nothing like it. It has its own character and it's so serious and so powerful, and so it's a prism through which I see everything.”
Annette Bening

“Great, I hijacked my fucking parents.”
Denis Colin Leary - Gus

“He's my son and I should be around him. I wasn't around my dad and look at the fuckin' way I turned out.”
Ryan Gosling - Luke

“Gatsby's real name was James Gatz. His parents were dirt-poor farmers from North Dakota, but he never accepted them as his parents at all. In his own imagination, he was a son of God, destined for future glory.”
Tobey Maguire - Nick Carraway

“Isn't that what's wrong with the world today? People are just looking for the easy way out, like their problems are gonna go away? Problems just don't go, Flo! You know? So the question here is: what are we going to do with our little problem child? I'll tell you what we are going to do. Something that no parent has ever done for him before....” (continue) (continue reading)
John Ritter - Benjamin 'Ben' Healy, Jr.

“- Frank Adler: Look, just don't worry, okay?
- Roberta Taylor: Don't tell me that. There's nothing you can say that's gonna make me feel good because I have no say in any of this, Frank. I'm not a blood relative! I'm not a legal guardian! I'm nothing! Just a lady who lives next door whose opinions mean nothing, whose feelings mean nothing! Would...” (continue) (continue reading)

Chris Evans - Frank Adler
Octavia Spencer - Roberta Taylor

“- Nicole Burnell: You and mom have a lawyer?
- Sam Burnell: Well, yes. He's your lawyer, too.
- Nicole Burnell: My lawyer. Why do I need a lawyer?
- Mary: Well maybe we shouldn't be talking about this just now, with you barely home. Aren't you hungry, honey? You want me to fix you something?
- Nicole Burnell: No. What's this lawyer business?”
Sarah Polley - Nicole Burnell
Tom McCamus - Sam Burnell
Brooke Johnson - Mary

“If dad's a liberal Democrat, then you'd have to say mom is the one thing more extreme. She's a guilty liberal Democrat.”
Natasha Lyonne - DJ

“Mr. Warbucks, when my folks left me at the orphanage ten years ago, they left a note saying they'd come back to get me as soon as they could, and they kept the other half of this old locket so I'd know them when they came.”
Aileen Quinn - Annie

“- Will Smith: What's your daughter's name?
- Ollie Trinke: Gertrude.
- Will Smith: Damn, why'd you do that man?”
Will Smith - Himself
Ben Affleck - Ollie Trinke

“- Peter: If you're not a father to me, how come you're a grandfather to Will?
- Sully: 'cause you gotta start someplace.”
Dylan Walsh - Peter
Paul Newman - Sully

I love you guys, don't get me wrong. But for the first time in my life I'm eighteen and I can say "fuck you".

Matthew Lillard - Stevo

“- Marlin: How do you know if they're ready?
- Crush: Well, you never really know, but when they know, you know, y'know?”
Albert Brooks - Marlin
Andrew Stanton - Crush

“- Glen: Well... ever since I burnt a hole in the roof my dad says I can't launch any of my rockets without supervision.
- Terrence 'Terry' Chandler: Hey... I'll supervise.”
Stephen Dorff - Glen
Louis Tripp - Terrence 'Terry' Chandler

“My parents were born into the good life. Old money, blue blooded, society sweethearts.”
Christina Ricci - Penelope Wilhern

“Just when it looked like your parents would be triumphant again, the unthinkable happened! Fat Teddy McGinty's belly struck the record player, accidentally turning up the speed. And the stepdancers began stepping quicker and quicker, trying to keep up. And that's when your mother fell, and she took your dad down with her. And before the dancers...” (continue) (continue reading)

Glynis Johns - Grandma

“- Gordon: Girls, your mother and I are getting divorced. Monogamy isn't realistic. Say it.
- Nine Year Old Amy, Five Year Old Kim: Monogamy isn't realistic.”
Colin Quinn - Gordon
Devin Fabry - Nine Year Old Amy
Carla Oudin - Five Year Old Kim

Before you have a kid, everyone tells you, "It's the best thing you'll ever do." And as soon as you get the baby back from the hospital, those same people are like, "Don't worry, it gets better."
Adam Horovitz - Fletcher

“- Shen: My parents hated me. Do you understand? They wronged me. And I will make it right.
- Soothsayer: They loved you. They loved you so much that having to send you away killed them.
- Shen: The dead exist in the past. And I must attend to the future.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Shen
Michelle Yeoh - Soothsayer

My mother looked at it and said, "How precious". I don't know why she said it. Well, I didn't know then. I know now, because my mother put a curse on me. A long time ago, I remember when I was a child what she said, and I later found out that mothers, all mothers, put a curse on their children. They say: "I hope, when you get married, you have... (continue) (continue reading)
Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby

“There are times when parents must be disobeyed.”

Bonita Granville - Nancy Drew