Parent Quotes - Page 53

Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid. So I never was really into religion as a concept.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.

So many things we love are you!

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

When you're at your own parents' funeral, when you're at somebody that you love's funeral, you realize how precious life is. And you say, "As long as I can walk and I'm healthy, there's always tomorrow."

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.