Parent Quotes

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

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.

Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead "“ a dead parent, for example "“ can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they covered up.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.

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 DNA.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique . . . You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures

I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence—a duty and a duty alone—and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

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.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

You will always be your child's favorite toy.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids.

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.

Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.