Parents Quotes
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.Marcelene Cox
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.Cathy Ladman
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
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
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
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
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
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
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.Socrates
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
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
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
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
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fische
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
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 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
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
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
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
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.Abraham Lincoln
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.Alan Watts
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
