Parent Quotes - Page 36

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

Grandchildren don't stay young forever, which is good because Pop-pops have only so many horsey rides in them.

Things parents say to children are oftentimes not heard, but in some cases you pick up on things that your parent would like to see you have done.

Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.

All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

Tolerance sounds like a virtue, and at times it may be. [But should] a parent be tolerant of behavior that is harming a child? Or the police be tolerant of criminals who prey upon others? Should doctors be tolerant of disease, or public schoolteachers tolerant of any answer on an exam, no matter how wrong?

My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, "Hey did you know this?" And then I'll be like, "Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that." Or , "that's not even true. I don't know where you read that." I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.

With the Lincoln assassination, the South didnt feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

I always loved music. You know, my parents said I started singing when I was 4, in the car.

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves.

I think if you're a 'tiger parent' early on, you don't need to be a 'helicopter parent' in high school.