Parent Quotes - Page 89

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that gets them something they desire and it has to be presented in a compelling way so that they feel inspired to follow.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Parents, whether or not we believe in a deity, know that to witness a child's mind searching for meaning is a miracle.

No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result of an adult decision or an act of fate that has nothing whatsoever to do with them.

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

It is the parents duty to intervene when they see wrong choices being made.

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.