Parents Quotes
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
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.John Locke
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
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.Cathy Ladman
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 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
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
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
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
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
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.Barbara Bush
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
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
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.Abraham Lincoln
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
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
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
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
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fische
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.Aharon Appelfeld
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.George Chapman
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.Harry S Truman
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".
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
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
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
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin
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
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
