Parent Quotes - Page 35

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

Being a parent is the hardest thing in the world... the psychological toll it takes on you because these lives are in your hands. I take it very seriously.

Honor your parents by not judging them. Give them the benefit of doubt.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents felt that way and I know that my grandparents felt that way and everybody worked hard so that their kids had a better chance. I just don't want to be the first generation that doesn't do that.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians.

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.

Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage created by our two parents. Our higher purpose on earth can be found by recognizing what our parents accomplished and where they left off. By reconciling what they gave us with what they left us to resolve, we can get a clear picture of who we are and what we are meant to do.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.