Parent Quotes - Page 33

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure.

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.

When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents, family members, bishops, advisers, and righteous friends of all ages. And if you are weary or take a wrong turn, change your direction and get back on the path of virtue. Always remember that the Savior is there for you. He will enable you to repent, strengthen you, lighten your burdens, dry your tears, comfort you, and continue to help you stay on the path.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

There is a strong side to me, that is of a homemaker. I look forward to spending time at home in the evenings, cooking a meal, chatting with my parents and inviting friends over.

You know, kids come to see me in the same way that their parents would go to see a rock concert.

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.

My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant.

The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

All parents experience the same problems.