#1. The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. – Author: Frank Clark

#2. I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn’t just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did. – Author: Roseanne Barr

#3. Because that’s what parents do, without even thinking about it, that’s what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when they’re adults no one can extinguish them. They’ll burn so bright they can’t be brought down. – Author: Kim Holden

#4. Adoptees, whether or not they ever knew their birth parents, often describe the constant, gnawing feeling of there being something missing: without a connection, or at least the knowledge of where they are from, they feel incomplete. – Author: Saroo Brierley

#5. Perhaps I should have pointed out more often that without her (mother’s) guidance and example I might have gone straight from short pants to Long Bay Gaol, which in those days was still in use and heavily populated by larcenous young men who had chosen their parents less wisely. – Author: Clive James

#6. My parents separated when I was four. It wasn’t the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can’t have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce. – Author: Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#7. Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you’re vulnerable throughout your life. We’re all the things our parents are – the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who’s a brilliant mother. – Author: James Fox

#8. I didn’t want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn’t want to live without passion. – Author: Hugh Hefner

#9. The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing. – Author: Aaron Johnson

#10. You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents’ untimely death. – Author: Mallory Ortberg

#11. I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value. – Author: Daniel Pinchbeck

#12. Whispering voice inside my head growing louder, my voice – not those of my parents or teachers or Carly or Muriel, even – telling me to live my life without fear or worry or doubt that nothing was going according to plan, as though such a plan ever existed in the first place. – Author: Rachel Friedman

#13. And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all. – Author: Natalia Ginzburg

#14. I’ve learned that a ten-minute shower and the gift of going to the toilet without a ticking clock restores much more in new parents than personal hygiene. – Author: Cecelia Ahern

#15. As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile. – Author: Joseph B. Wirthlin

#16. The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that they can belong primarily to themselves. They may accept the services that adults perform for them naturally without establishing dependencies. – Author: Germaine Greer

#17. Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents’ guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college. – Author: Daphne Oz

#18. As a child, I did what any normal kid who grew up without any electricity would do – I spent countless hours working on a computer wired to my parents’ car battery … and learned how to code. This natural passion for computers lead me into the Internet market during the late 1990s and early 2000s. – Author: Ryan Holmes

#19. I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there’s none of that hopefully. – Author: Jo Brand

#20. I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed – the whole thing supposedly takes place in her bedroom at her parents house in Duluth, MN. I thought it was great and really strange – to have a comedy special without having to leave your bed. – Author: Dana Schutz

#21. I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do a series, so I tried to figure out a way to follow him without getting in trouble with my parents, and that was by auditioning for their National Institute. – Author: Deborah Kara Unger

#22. So I’ll send my parents money, and maybe they can get a bigger place, too. They can even relax when they’re older, the way they deserve to. Without having to worry about how they’re going to survive. But for now, I’m the one who has to survive. – Author: Susane Colasanti

#23. If you’re under 26, you can stay on your parents’ plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents’ plans. – Author: Kathleen Sebelius

#24. I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying ‘Englishman.’ My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born. – Author: Mike Myers

#25. Living alone in a foreign country without parents, siblings, or friends, trying to keep pace with society here, was painful and sad. – Author: Kimi Cunningham Grant

#26. I think we’ll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn’t want us to be miserable. – Author: Lemony Snicket

#27. My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb out of poverty in America, and over the years they were proven right. – Author: James McBride

#28. Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him. – Author: Louis L’Amour

#29. I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them. – Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#30. My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone’s child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent. – Author: Valerie Jarrett

#31. Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding. – Author: Alice Miller

#32. One of the things about parents and children is that there is no way that you go through this without there being mutual anger. – Author: Anne Roiphe

#33. I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples’ homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together? – Author: Zhou Xun

#34. My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of. – Author: James Woods

#35. I swear … to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture. – Author: Hippocrates

#36. When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York’s La MaMa theater company – without my parents! – Author: Diane Lane

#37. When we can trust that it’s we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves. – Author: Bud Harris

#38. To me ‘they lived happily ever after’ means to be happy with yourself! My parents always taught me that being happy has to work without Prince Charming. My life is completed without a prince but it’s nice of course to have someone who loves you and fights for you. – Author: Kristen Stewart

#39. I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that’s kept me in line. Really in line. – Author: Adrien Brody

#40. He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given. – Author: Guru Nanak

#41. Now I’ve gotten to know more about the industry. And now that I’m over 18, I can work without my parents on set. That was nice and helped me get comfortable. – Author: Katie Chang

#42. Imagine if you borrowed your parents’ car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you’d feel if you were incorporated. – Author: Peter Lynch

#43. I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother. – Author: Stefano Gabbana

#44. I couldn’t have gotten this far without my beautiful parents. I’m also very lucky to have the best friends that I do. – Author: Nicole Anderson

#45. We have lost sight of nature’s role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can’t go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met. – Author: Gordon Neufeld

#46. People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can’t – to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can’t. – Author: Virginia Postrel

#47. That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with – loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father? – Author: Maurice Sendak

#48. Laws on killing, even God’s demands, didn’t allow for peace. Not always. There’d still be pain; missing that child would break her parents’ hearts. But what Helen knew, what she’d seen in those woods, would be too much for them, for everybody. – Author: Alan Heathcock

#49. I wanted things to be highly coloured, simple in outline, without ambiguity, which is what most children want when it comes to the stories of their parents. They want a postcard. – Author: Margaret Atwood

#50. I am the youngest of four siblings, and we’re all so close. I don’t know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most! – Author: Marissa Jaret Winokur

#51. One of the most visible effects of a child’s presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles. – Author: Georges Courteline

#52. The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn’t have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn’t possibly have gone. – Author: Trevor Nunn

#53. I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes. – Author: C. Everett Koop

#54. All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently. – Author: Heyward Bruce Ewart III

#55. ‘The Road’ is about that fear that all parents can have. What’s going to happen to your child if you’re not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all. – Author: Viggo Mortensen

#56. People came to my parents’ parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn’t know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost. – Author: Sandra Bullock

#57. It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced. – Author: Mary Wortley Montagu

#58. Parents do overindulge their children, giving them a profusion of material things … without the stabilizing effects of earning one’s way, of making decisions, of sweating hard to attain some kind of goal, young people are grievously handicapped. – Author: Billy Graham

#59. Loving our parents, we bring them into us. They inhabit us. For a long time I believed that I could not bear to live without Mom and Dad – I could not bear to “outlive” them – for to be a daughter without parents did not seem possible to me. – Author: Joyce Carol Oates

#60. To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents.
To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world. – Author: J.R. Rim

#61. You can’t spell “parentry” without “try.” Of course, you’ll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make with your kids are the same ones your parents made with you. At least you know how those turn out. – Author: Stephen Colbert

#62. The same way all the people I love factor in – my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don’t have a lot of people in my life, but there’s a small group of people that I don’t like to do things without. – Author: Jack Antonoff

#63. I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn’t be able to get a good job or have a decent living. – Author: Jeremih

#64. Her father had admired her mother without ever truly understanding her. And her mother–her mother had relied on her father without appreciating him. There had been a gulf between them that couldn’t be bridged by all the goodwill in the world. – Author: Beatriz Williams

#65. A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents. – Author: Raj Kapoor

#66. She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. – Author: David Brin

#67. When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay. – Author: Nick Vujicic

#68. I’m really close to my parents and my sisters. It is awesome to have a built-in support system and people who love you unconditionally. I wouldn’t be the person I am without my crew! – Author: Marisa Miller

#69. Without differentiating from parents or caretakers we may never succeed in living our own lives. – Author: Lisa Firestone

#70. Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you? – Author: Barry Hannah

#71. And your three-year-old Ford Explorer,” Terezin said, “bought without your parents’ money, a proud statement of your independence – of course it has a GPS. – Author: Dean Koontz

#72. Without parents who had time for her, at an early age she had made herself self-sufficient. – Author: Hanif Kureishi

#73. Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy. – Author: Keke Palmer

#74. Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society. – Author: Jenny McCarthy

#75. I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age. – Author: Ted Dekker

#76. Without confidence we feel insecure. We replay the doubting voices of our parents on a loop in our own minds. – Author: Steven Franssen

#77. Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance. – Author: Jed Diamond

#78. While ‘The Middle’ is still funny for adults to watch, there aren’t sex jokes. And I’m fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents. – Author: Neil Flynn

#79. The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction – Author: Marian Wright Edelman

#80. My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can’t live without them. – Author: David Cook

#81. My parents are very comfortable with the way that I am, and I think they’ve always been. Without that, I don’t think that I would have ever have been able to grow into the person that I am today. I never felt like I was hiding anything from them. – Author: Jason Wu

#82. My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god. – Author: Sheila Heti

#83. We hate our parents for having their own lives, don’t we, for making decisions for themselves that don’t seem to take us into account. They’re not people, not really. They’re parents; how dare they live and love and die without us? – Author: Lisa Unger

#84. I didn’t finish college; my parents didn’t graduate college – we didn’t have a pot to piss in. I’m from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn’t think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job. – Author: Barbara Kruger

#85. These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists’ rights to free speech, which is something that we respect. – Author: Tipper Gore

#86. After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses – staying with friends, families from church, and relying on the kindness of teachers and people throughout my community to help me grow up essentially without parents. – Author: Ronnie Musgrove

#87. I have a secret sibling that I never knew existed and who was given up for adoption at birth by my parents, and she was born without legs. – Author: Dominique Moceanu

#88. You don’t need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it. – Author: Derek Williams

#89. I often find that the best parents are the ones without children. – Author: Lisa Vanderpump

#90. There couldn’t be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline. – Author: Ricardo Montalban

#91. Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents
but God forbid an infidel touch a Quran at Guantanamo. – Author: Ann Coulter

#92. But my parents were there when I needed them, always there. The idea that I would someday have to walk the earth without their anchor and misguided guidance made me wince … – Author: Alice Clayton

#93. I’m going to do. I want to look at the microcard without my parents or Bram glancing – Author: Ally Condie

#94. We never replace Jesus in our children’s lives. We don’t even do the work of Jesus in our children’s lives. We do the work of parents, which is to point our children to Jesus. And then Jesus does his own work
with or without us. – Author: Leslie Leyland Fields

#95. Not a word. Being a hypocrite is the only way people who were once teenagers can be parents without going out of their damn minds. – Author: DiscontentedWinter

#96. Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal, any child of any race should be placed with any qualified parents without restriction or special conditions. – Author: John Ridley

#97. Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it’s hard to tell whose grades they are. – Author: John Rosemond

#98. All love – love of children, love of parents, love of God or life – comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything. – Author: Barry Long

#99. For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an ‘Internet treasure’ – a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn’t live without. – Author: Bing Gordon

#100. Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son … these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail. – Author: Dan Pearce