Parent Quotes - Page 40

What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

The ultimate defining fact for all of us is that we are children of Heavenly Parents, born on this earth for a purpose, and born with a divine destiny.

In a recent interview, Michelle Obama said that the Secret Service taught Malia how to drive. In exchange, Malia taught the Secret Service how to throw a party when her parents are away.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way.

I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what motivated me to get into law.

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.

No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.

Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.

I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

It's impossible for me to hear the words quadruple murder suicide without thinking of my grandparents.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.