Parents Quotes
My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.
We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway.
The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.
I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.
I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.
It took me a long time to be convinced that marriage was right for me because I've come from a long line of broken marriages. My parents divorced, and I had two broken marriages myself.
Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.
The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.
As anyone who's ever adopted a dog will tell you, there's always the fear that one day the birth parents will come scratching at the door.
My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.
I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.
Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from "Here Comes the Groom" or "Waterboy."
As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.
In New Orleans, where I'm from, the average household income, with two working parents, two kids, a dog and a little fence is $16,000 a year, so $15,000 for a movie sounds pretty good.
New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.
I am the youngest of four siblings, and were all so close. I dont know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most!
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay?
I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.
Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.
What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be
I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
The greatest tribute a boy can give to his father is to say, “When I grow up, I want to be just like my dad.” It is a convicting responsibility for us fathers and grandfathers.
If ever we needed to put the Golden Rule into action, it’s with our aging parents.
In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.
Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.
What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me.
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.
If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!
Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
The affection of parents makes infants feel safe in this dangerous world, and gives them boldness in experimentation and in exploration of their environments.
Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,
Parents, pray that God may crown your home with grace and mercy.
Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly.
My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.
What a blessing it is for parents to believe in their children.
All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar
It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.