Parents Quotes

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 child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

Rachel Blanchard

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Ogden Nash

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.

Quentin

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

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 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

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

Amy Vanderbilt

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

Author Unknown

In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Herodotus

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

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

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

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

Australian Aboriginal Elde

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.

Edward R. Nida

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

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