Parents Quotes

Listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway

Unknown

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.

Bette Davis

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

Oscar Wilde

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Shinichi Suzuki

Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down

Unknown

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

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

Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jesse Jackson

The values indicated by status-insecure parents are such that their children learn to put personal success and the acquisition of power above all else. They are taught to judge people for their usefulness rather than their likeableness. Their friends, and even future marriage partners, are selected and used in the service of personal advancement; love and affection take second place to knowing the right people. They are taught to eschew weakness and passivity, to respect authority, and to despise those who have not made the socio-economic grade. Success is equated with social esteem and material advantage, rather than with more spiritual values.

Norman F. Dixon

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Dave Barry

Parents who are always giving their children nothing but the best usually wind up with nothing but the worst

Unknown

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Dick Cavett

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

Aeschylus

Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.

Aristotle

The joys of parents are secret; and so are their griefs and fears. They cannot utter the one; nor they will not utter the other.

Francis Bacon

"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

Aeschylus

I wish it were me instead of you. Yeah. I'm getting the sodium pentothal. You have to go sit with my parents.

Alison Bechdel

Big L is that nigga you expect to catch rep on any cassette deck, I'm so ahead of my time my parents haven't met yet.

Lamont Coleman

It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.

Ruth Eleanor

In the labs, the young make things move, and the older ones follow like parents evolving with their children.

Catherine Brchignac

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