Parent Quotes - Page 32

When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents.

I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own.

Many people spend their entire lifetimes wishing that other people would acknowledge them. They feel this especially about their parents, spouses, children, and friends.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

The first expert said he had attention deficit disorder. The second expert said the first was out of order. One said he was autistic, another that he was artistic. One said he had Tourette's syndrome. One said he had Asperger's syndrome. And one said the problem was that his parents had Munchausen syndrome. Still another said all he needed was a good old-fashioned spanking.

Before you get married you should meet your fiance's parents. It is not enough that you like his parole officer.

My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

My parents insisted that we should always be respectful, never forget where we come from and that we are part of the challenges facing our people

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

I would say is that kids know about Bernie Sanders and they`re off the radar.In the same way kids knew about Twitter before their parents did.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Parents do not own their children. They have no ‘natural right’ to control their education fully.

I go to my parents' over Christmas. I definitely do, but I don't see it as a Christmas because during Christmas there was also a Viking holiday. So I just to choose to see it as that!

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.