Parent Quotes
Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.
The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.
Wherever you go and whatever ends you pursue, you must always fulfill the trust reposed in you by your nation, your parents and your alma mater
The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.
There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
You can't teach children to be good. The best you can do for your child is to live a good life yourself. What a parent knows and believes, the child will lean on.
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.
My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.
I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
My parents divorced when I was born, and my mother is a political science professor, like a feminist Mormon, which is sort of an oxymoron.
My parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France.
I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.
Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.
Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment.
Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.
Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).
We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them
A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
I really owe everything to my parents and their devotion and drive to see to it that their children had the education which led to the opportunities that they never were able to have.
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
To be a different kind of parent, you don't just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.
I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.
Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.
When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!
THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.
When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
All persons who bear the blessed title of parent have the personal responsibility to see that their children are growing up fully appreciative of the rights of God and their fellowmen.
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.