Parent Quotes - Page 137

My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids.

My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.

Our parents got to be kids. Now it's our turn.

Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture? But I was doomed to live.

Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.

It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.

One of the great blessings of the plan is that we are organized into families. You have parents whose greater wisdom and experience will help you reach your divine potential. Trust them. They want the best for you.

Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.

I have to think that we all have - at one time or another - felt that our own voice was silenced or under-valued. Who among us did not have the experience as a child of feeling as if our parents just didn't listen?

I challenge youth to cooperate with parents who are concerned about your reading and your viewing. Be concerned yourself about what you take into your mind. Young people, you would never eat a meal of spoiled or contaminated food if you could help it, would you? Select your reading and viewing carefully and in good taste.

I never lost my faith...But like all modern Catholics, I felt for a time that I had outgrown the church. Now it is a bone of contention in my soul that I did not share my faith with my kids, as my parents did with me. It was a source of grace when I needed it. I have been greatly nurtured and inspired by my faith.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.

You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

The charter school is a possibility, an alternative in certain circumstances, but not in most, and not in most places, and not - most parents don't have either the time, the inclination or the aptitude to sit and go through sifting what school and what is available and what the options are.

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

I'm not like a religious exerciser. My parents go down to the gym everyday now, and I'm the one that stays upstairs. But I definitely need to start exercising.

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent

If your like me, you like to wait till your parents are having sex and walk in on them and act like its an accident, and then ask if you can join in.

A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."

Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."

One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.