Parents Quotes

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Sandy Farquha

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

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

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

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

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets.

Jim

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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

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

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Jimmy Buffett