Parent Quotes - Page 97

One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."

True love is the parent of humility.

What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?

A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.

I get my sense of humor from my parents. That's why they don't have one anymore.

I've always believed that parents are not for leaning upon, but rather exist to make leaning unnecessary.

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.

I like my films to influence the audience. Even if it means tripping their aged grandparents with a cane when they get home.

I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, about right and wrong, about selfishness?

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember the photo from now on, but not them.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.

Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and able to achieve things that you couldn't.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Teaching children how to be eco-friendly at preschool age is just so obvious and so fantastic. It creates habits that they get into for a lifetime and then they put pressure on their parents.

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

The only person I can count on is myself. It's up to me to create the life I want. I can't blame my parents or Scott or anyone else for the way things are.

I've had my share of problems along the way. Don't get me wrong, because there is no school for this. You go from a poor person to a rich person. My parents didn't have no money; didn't tell me nothing about investments.