Parents Quotes
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
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
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.King Edward VIII
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
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
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
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.Aharon Appelfeld
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
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".
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
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
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
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.Cathy Ladman
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
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 learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
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 only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
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
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.Clarence Darrow
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
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
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
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
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
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
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
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
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.John Locke
