Parent Quotes

Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it makes them defensive.

Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

There are very few times in creation in your life. One time is when you become an adult, one time is when your parents die, and the other time is when you are very old.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.

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.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

Next to God, thy parents.

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

[I'm a conscious parent] when I stay away from fear-based control tactics - punishment, yelling and threats and I'm seeking more enlightened ways to create boundries with my child.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

I had a hard childhood. Hard for my parents. Not that bad for me.

I don't think anyone here supports the legislation. But I'd like to hear you at least say that you don't support spanking by any parent, because you choose not to do it. You must think it's wrong.

The greatest tragedy of the family is the unlived lives of the parents.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

You can care very much about someone without being capable of becoming their primary caregiver in the event of their parents' untimely death.

Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. Its about being there at big moments, but its also just the consistency of decision making. And its routine.

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

I firmly believe, however, that if your children have never hated you, you have failed as a parent.

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.

My parents always told us, you know, you have to get your education. You're not supposed to become a statistic.

I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

My goal as a parent is to prepare you for the future, not to make you like me.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

What can be more clear and sound in explanation, than the love of a parent to his child?

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.

The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.

So parents, get your children's permission to watch!

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

Being a parent is absolutely exhausting and draining, along with all the joy and love.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

You have to learn to be patient and not give up. Look to your parents; they need to be there for you. But having spiritual faith will get you through anything.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

What parent has it easy? I just never make the difficulty of it an obstacle. I just do it.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.