Parent Quotes

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

Coaches know that a parent publicly scolding his kid after a race will not help the athlete perform better.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

I would say is that kids know about Bernie Sanders and they're off the radar.In the same way kids knew about Twitter before their parents did.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

I can't remember a single time [my parents] ever told me not to do something I wanted to do.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

My parents always felt if I worked hard enough I could make any dream come true.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

I leave my parents here behind And all my friends to love resigned 'Tis grief to go, but death to stay Farewell -- I'm gone with love away.