Parent Quotes - Page 83

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

I went to church with my grandparents sometimes and I loved it.

All parents are an embarrassment to their kids. Often grandparents are the relief. Kids don't have to resist you.

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world.

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

It wasn't so hard being like your parents or 180 degrees the other way. What was hard was not being one way or the other.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

If your grandparents are Mexican, you can relate through the roots of the show [Top Chef], through the food, through the traditions and find yourself and get to know yourself too.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me at the helm, cuddling this little creature. It's been bittersweet and humbling to let her lead and to not try to be perfect myself.~

Everything just feels so empty without her. She was more a parent to me than my birth parents were. She took me in, fed, dressed me, but most importantly, she treated me with respect. She taught me that my abilities were nothing to be ashamed of, nothing I should try so hard to deny. She convinced me that what I had was a gift-not a curse- and that I shouldn't let other people's narrow minds and fears determine how I love, what I do, or how I perceive myself in the world. She actually made me believe that in no way, shape, or form did their uninformed opinions make me a freak.

I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents.

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.

I just wanted to show the migrants as complex humans with flaws and weakness, with good and bad things, and show that they're parents and family men. I wanted to show them with everything, as they are.