Parents Quotes
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fische
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
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
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
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.Helen Hayes
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
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
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.Aharon Appelfeld
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
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
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
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