Parents Quotes
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
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
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
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
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
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
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 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 wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.John Locke
How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.Edward R. Nida
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fische
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
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
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
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elde
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
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
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
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
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
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
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
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
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
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.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
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
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
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
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
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
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".
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
