Parent Quotes - Page 21

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?

On the set of Besharam I had to refrain from smoking, out of respect for my parents

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.

My parents found me very difficult to educate.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you.- Desmond Tutu In the end, kids won't remember that fancy toy or game you bought for them, they will remember the time you spent with them.

Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them.

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.