Parent Quotes - Page 59

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Freud tells us to blame our parents for all the shortcomings of our life, Marx tells us to blame the upper class of our society. But the only one to blame is oneself.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

It’s a good thing my parents named me Jon because that’s what everyone calls me.

Our land is everything to us.... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.

Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

It all began when... they're funny, those words. Everyone uses them, without thinking what they mean. When does anything begin? With everyone it begins when you're born. Or before that, when your parents got married. Or before that, when your parents were born. Or when your ancestors colonised the place. Or when humans came squishing out of the mud and slime, dropped off their flippers and fins, and started to walk. But all the same, all that aside, for what's happened to us there was quite a definite beginning

My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure.

~I used to think, What if there's an interesting movie and it conflicts with the boys going to a new school for the first time?... Well, I didn't anticipate that was going to be about a two-second dilemma. I didn't know the choices would be so easy to make.~

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it took a new car to lose that scent, or a brand-new house to gather dust. Maybe that was the process more commonly described as bonding: the act of learning your child as well as you know yourself.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect, that there was much to be said for their suggestion. On the other hand, many philosophers are quite good company; the arguments they use are generally better than the ones that lawyers use; and we do get to go to as many faculty meetings as we like at no extra charge.