Parent Quotes - Page 102

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.

Your typical Six-year-old is a paradoxical little person, and bipolarity is the name of his game

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.

A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her.

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

My grandparents knew it was important that I understood Christianity and the Bible. But they never took me to church; they sent me to church.

The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.

Once you do embark upon the separation or divorce process, it is very important to remember three key things: Be kind, be reasonable, be brief. Remember that this person will no longer be your spouse, but he or she will continue to be your co-parent, family member and perhaps business partner in certain assets or entities.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work - dont depend on other people, do it yourself.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

When talking w/kids its not what we say but how we say it! Think about your tone of voice & non-verbal communication. When talking to my kids I can get them to listen better by not talking down to them, but talking to them at eyeball level

I would definitely love to be a parent.

No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years.

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.

It's a lot easier being black than gay. At least if you're black you don't have to tell your parents.

When I was twelve. And I was going through my parents' bookshelves, I found the most wonderful books and plenty of. Within those wonderful books that were real turn-on's. At 12 or 13, books were such turn-ons.

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."