Parents Quotes
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
William M. Kucmierowski
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane Howard
The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.
Allan David Bloom
The main problem with teenagers is that they're just like their parents were at their age.
Unknown
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
Robert Neelly Bellah
This legislation gives parents some comfort that their children won't fall prey to child predators while using the Internet at schools and libraries that receive federal dollars for Internet services.
Judy Biggert
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.
Native American Indian Proverb
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keeping with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.
Alice Miller
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman
Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.
James A. Brewer
Parents: People who spend half their time wondering how their children will turn out, and the rest of the time when they will turn in.
Eleanor Graham Vance
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
Shakespeare
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Frank A. Clark
