Parent Quotes

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off.

My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take

Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.

Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

If you get offended by words - by noises we make with our mouths - it means you were raised by bad parents.

In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent in the home state.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.

Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent

Being a parent is very important to me.

My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still arguing about money.

Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents.

I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we discuss the world and learn from these events together?"

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.

The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.