Parents Quotes

When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults ...

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So t...

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither,...

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they s...

Reading Chip's college orientation materials, Alfred had been struck by the sentence New England win...

When my late father died — now I'm in mourning for my late mother — that sense of grief and bereavem...

I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than yo...

He saw what they either couldn't see or couldn't allow themselves to see, and that only made him mor...

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem...

Our parents thought we might be corrupted by one another into becoming whatever it was they most fea...

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything th...

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know...

We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - ther...

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering a...

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has ...

I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted ...

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child rela...

Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into...

The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for th...

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning an...

I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - if th...

My parents know I was outgoing as a child, and whenever people came over, I'd automatically do impre...

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines...

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, w...

Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite fran...

When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if paren...

I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we ...

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them ...

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to...

God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and ...

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

It just seemed too weird to me. I don't know, maybe they were smoking a joint in the car downstairs ...

Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because ...

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid ...

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriousl...

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out...

I know more about my father than I used to know: I know he wanted to be a pilot in the war but could...

I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an ear...

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective,...

The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the con...

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even th...

I've tried to teach what I learned all those years in my mother and father's house, all those things...

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave...

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much hu...

'The Simpsons' was about children and married parents; 'Futurama' is about people in between; they'r...

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is...

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tie...

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect tha...

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to ...

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the ...

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that...

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside...

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ou...

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come fr...

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly coupl...

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-somethi...

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is ...

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters,...

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters,...

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in...

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prin...

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house ...

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is...

I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I ...

I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I...

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn'...

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such...

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anyt...

From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me th...

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were n...

I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front...

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgi...

I’d never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, li...

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...

I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play show...

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I h...

My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks...

…but the truly frightening thing was to learn that his mother was no stronger than he was, that the ...

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to...

In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My t...

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and chil...

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and h...

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sen...

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to s...