Parents Quotes

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Socrates

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

Ogden Nash

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

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

Edward R. Nida

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

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

H. L. Mencken

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

Herodotus

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

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 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

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

Ogden Nash

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

Joseph Fische

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

We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.

Sandy Farquha

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