Parents quotes

“I said I had lost my parents; it would be nearer to the truth that my parents lost me.”
Colin Firth - Jack

“- Libby Reynolds: I love you a million Swedish Fish.
- Daphne Reynolds: I love you a million red M&M's.”
Kelly Preston - Libby Reynolds
Amanda Bynes - Daphne Reynolds

“To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.”
Dame Judi Dench - Lady Bracknell

“She told me they have support for people whose parents are poor, but not for those whose parents are assholes.”
C. Thomas Howell - Mark Watson

“Needless to say, we felt qualified to handle having children. And we planned to have children. We sat in the backseat of a car... and discussed it! Children! Having children and bringing them up.”

Bill Cosby - Bill Cosby

“- George Banks: Drive carefully. And don't forget to fasten your condom.
- Annie Banks: Dad!
- George: Seat belt! I meant, I meant seat belt.”
Steve Martin - George Banks
Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Annie Banks

“- Clark Griswold: Audrey! What are you doing? Ten years of tap dancing lessons and this is the way you repay us?
- Audrey Griswold: What? You told me to get a summer job.”

Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold
Marisol Nichols - Audrey Griswold

“I'm going to tell you something important. I never loved your mother. Not real love.”

Michael Tucker - Saul Moss

“So many youngsters already gone forever. Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters back home must have a difficult time retaining any belief in the internal rightness of things.”
Tom Selleck - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

“- Melissa: You live with your parents?
- Tripp: Is that a problem?
- Melissa: Are you kidding me?”
Katheryn Winnick - Melissa
Matthew McConaughey - Tripp

“- Danny Muldoon: You came home late. You were arguing and I woke up. I was scared. I didn't know what was going on, so I listened in at the door.
- Rose Muldoon: A little spy.
- Danny Muldoon: Come on, I was only 12.
- Rose Muldoon: Spy!”

John Candy - Danny Muldoon
Maureen O'Hara - Rose Muldoon

“In New York I learned that I needed to love my mother and father in all their flawed, outrageous humanity, and in families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness. But it is the mystery of life that sustains me now.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“- Deli Man: How's the holidays?
- Tom Valco: Considering I got a pain in my ass about six feet tall in my house, all right!”
Ron Karabatsos - Deli Man
James Gandolfini - Tom Valco

“There are times when we're dirt broke, hungry, and freezing, and I ask myself, why the hell am I still living here? And then they call. And I remember.”

Anthony Rapp - Mark Cohen

“We have such a responsibility to guide our young so that they don't end up falling apart, falling by the wayside, becoming insignificant.”
Adrien Brody - Henry Barthes

“- Francine: Where did you get this?
- Evan: I found it in my dad's room, actually.”

Lindy Booth - Francine
Kevin Zegers - Evan

“Violet, I saw how hard it was on your mom when she didn't make it, but if she was here she'd tell me to shut up, wish you luck and give you a big hug. I'm not going to give you a big hug and I'm not going to wish you luck, but I am going to shut up, sit here with my coffee and pretend to be mad. Is that okay?”

John Goodman - Bill Sanford

“Every war has its casualties, just ask my brother.”
Evan Rachel Wood - Kimberly Joyce

“- Nick Dean: They're making our parents dance so lame.
- Carl Wheezer: No, my dad really dances like that.”

Candi Milo - Nick Dean
Rob Paulsen - Carl Wheezer

- Luke Davenport: I only get to see my parents on the news.
- Sam Simms: No, that's your "boo-tay" you've been seeing on the news.
Brock Pierce - Luke Davenport
Sinbad - Sam Simms

“- Sue: We were good parents and now we're supposed to be done!
- Male BBQ Guest #1: Hey, I don't blame my kid for stayin'. Our place is much nicer than anything he can afford.
- Male BBQ Guest #2: Well, our son's a flight attendant. He travels so much, it doesn't make any sense to have his own apartment.
- Female BBQ Guest: Plus, he has a lot of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kathy Bates - Sue
E.L. James - Male BBQ Guest #1
Stewart Skelton - Male BBQ Guest #2
Sarah Lilly - Female BBQ Guest

“I don't know when my parents began their war against each other - but I do know the only prisoners they took were their children.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov

“There should be a prerequisite, a curriculum for being a parent before people attempt. Don’t try this at home!”
Adrien Brody - Henry Barthes

“I think we kick when we find out that our parents don't know much more about the world than we do. They don't have all the answers. We rebel when we find out that they've been lying to us all along, that there isn't any Santa Claus at all.”
Dakota Fanning - Allie Keys