Parent Quotes - Page 144

Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.

Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.

What kind of life am I setting up for her (her = daughters)?...It's not just about making them, like, not be assholes, which is what I think any parent would do.

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

I think parents need to make sure they have parental controls and not have their credit card linked up to in-app purchases so their kids can just spend whenever they want to. They need to ask permission.

You’re an idiot, Maxon Schreave. Your parents have completely sabotaged you. You could have a thousand girls set before you, and it wouldn’t matter. You’re too stupid to see love when it stands right in front of you.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else really matters.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

I love both my parents dearly.

It's easier for me if I'm just open and transparent to a point.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our childrens lives.

In the past the intrinsic pleasures of parenthood for most American families were increased by the extrinsic economic return thatchildren brought. Today, parents have children despite their economic cost. This is a major, indeed a revolutionary, change.

It is misleading to discuss recent changes in family life without emphasizing the fact that for generations some Americans have had to raise children under particularly appalling pressures. Although much of what is worrying American parents is shared by them all, the most grievous problems are those that especially afflict a large minority--the poor, the nonwhite and, in various ways, the parents of handicapped children.

My grandfather, Harry Ferguson, was a butcher in Hill of Beath; so even though my grandparents lived in some poverty, we got loads of beef. My grandmother, Meg, was a fine Scottish cook who did slow cooking.

And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.

I credit my parents for instilling in me a good work ethic and the sensibility that God serves those best who serve themselves.