Parent Quotes - Page 43

When I was a boy, we were the only Jewish family in a terribly anti-Semitic neighborhood. Those streets weren't any fun for us but our parents never found that out. In a way, you avoid telling your parents what happened to you during those days.

As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.

There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.

I didn't realize how good I was with computers until I met my parents.

Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.

You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.

You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my shame. My shame at not having become someone, the shame of not having made my parents proud after all the sacrifices they had made for me. The shame of having become a mediocre nihilist.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying . . . demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism.

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.

The surest way to a child's heart is to spend time with them

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.