Parents Quotes
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
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
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
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".
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
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
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 second 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
How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.Edward R. Nida
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
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
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
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
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
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
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 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
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.Roger Rosenblatt
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
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
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
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
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.Aharon Appelfeld
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
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.Cathy Ladman
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fische
