Parents Quotes

Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Muriel Spark

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

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

My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.

Cathy Ladman

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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

In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus

We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.

Sandy Farquha

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

Ogden Nash

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Woody Allen