Parents Quotes
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
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
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elde
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
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
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
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
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
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.Abraham Lincoln
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.Aharon Appelfeld
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
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
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fische
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
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.Quentin Crisp
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.Cathy Ladman
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
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.Harry S Truman
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
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
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.John Locke
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
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second 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
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
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
