Parent Quotes - Page 4

Presence is more than just being there.

Everything depends on upbringing.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.

I had this great urge... I had it the day I was born. Some may call it destiny. My parents and friends called it dismaying.

An adolescent does not rebel against her parents. She rebels against their power. If parents would rely less on power and more on nonpower methods to influence their children from infancy on, there would be little for children to rebel against when they become adolescents. The use of power to change the behavior of children, then, has this severe limitation: parents inevitably run out of power, and sooner than they think.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.