GloZell Quotes

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

We all have opinions to what our parents really are, whether they agree or not. I'm sure they would feel the same the other way around.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

I'm obsessed with my parents.

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Alright, alright, I admit it: my husband is the quiet, kind, accepting parent, and I'm the one who wants so much to be part of our two daughters' lives than I can't even let them finish a story without interrupting.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

There are many tough conversations, but one of the most difficult is between a parent and an adolescent daughter, partly because as a parent we are almost always attempting to relate to someone who is no longer there.

I was a little bit ashamed of American TV because I thought, 'None of the shows my father works on are as funny as my father.'