Parent Quotes - Page 26

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

I wish we lived in a world where all kids were loved by their parents how I was and am every day.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading parents to mere intermediaries between their children and the market. This indeed is a social revoluation in our time!

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

My father taught me how to be a parent and gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this advice.