Parents Quotes
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
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 must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
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
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
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
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
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 thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
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
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elde
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 first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.Edward R. Nida
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.Clarence Darrow


