Parents Quotes
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.Abraham Lincoln
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.David Bowie
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.Cathy Ladman
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elde
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
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.Marcelene Cox
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.James Agee
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 peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
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
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".
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.Pope John Paul II
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
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
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
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
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.Lewis Blaine Hershey
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.John Locke
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 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
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
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
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
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
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
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
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
