Parent Quotes
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.
If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds
Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.
How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.
Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.
Really, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.
The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.
We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.
Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.
I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.
She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.
The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths from us.
The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
Respect gods before demigods, heroes before men, and first among men your parents; but respect yourself most of all.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to
I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.
This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.
It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.
Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.
People think living in your parents' basement until you're twenty-nine is lame. But what they don't realize is that while you're there, you save money on rent, food, and dates.
It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.