Parent Quotes - Page 19

What would my parents think about America if they arrived here today? Would they even want to come? I wonder.

I'd rather do manual labor than sit behind a desk. And as my grandparents got older, I'd fly out there and help out around the farm. We'd tear barns down; we'd build barns. I'd rather be outside rolling hay or driving the tractors.

It's all about loving your parents.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Really, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.

Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.

We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.

My brothers are my backbone. My parents are my oxygen. I can't live without them.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.

It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

Life is love, a gift from god and parent, death is gratitude for a new dimension

Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.