Parents Quotes
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets.Jim
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.Martin Luthe
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elde
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.Benjamin Spock
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.John Locke
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin
The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.Quentin Crisp
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fische
Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get.Batman
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.Alan Watts
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty - Five, she needs good looks. From thirty - Five to fifty - Five, she needs a good personality. From fifty - Five on, she needs good cash.Sophie Tucke
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.Clarence Darrow
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.Rachel Blanchard
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.Cathy Ladman
