Parent Quotes - Page 11

I don't believe in Hell, but I believe in my parents' couch.

Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do they furnish their children with arguments for the defense of that faith? ...it is not surprising to see them abandon a position which they are unable to defend.

When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.

Wouldn't life be easier for both parents and infants if parents would observe, relax and enjoy what their child is doing, rather than keep teaching what the child is not yet capable of?

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

So now I'm rollin' down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain't seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one

Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it's a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Physical punishment teaches children that the larger, stronger person has the power to get his way, whether or not he is in the right, and they may resent this in the parent-for life.