Parent Quotes - Page 5

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

The hardest part about rollerblading is telling your parents you're gay.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Wherever you go and whatever ends you pursue, you must always fulfill the trust reposed in you by your nation, your parents and your alma mater

The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.