Parents Quotes

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

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

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

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

H. L. Mencken

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

Louis Johannot

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

Amy Vanderbilt

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

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

Edward R. Nida

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

Herodotus

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

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

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

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

Quentin

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clarence Darrow

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