Our Parents Quotes

270 quotes by 237 authors

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and… — Ezra Taft Benson
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security… — Carol Moseley Braun
We are the people our parents warned us about. — Jimmy Buffett
I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us… — Jenna Bush
Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it… — Tony Campolo
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a… — John le Carre
...if we want to meet the obligations of our civilization and our culture which are to create communities for our children that provide them with… — Robert Kennedy
We are not known by our bank balances or who our parents are. It is ultimately we who have to prove ourselves. It is not… — Anita Ratnam
All men and women are born, live, suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly… — Joseph Epstein
Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in our life when… — Dalai Lama
We do not develop habits of genuine love automatically. We learn by watching effective role models - most specifically by observing how our parents express… — Josh McDowell
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community. — Ross Perot
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two… — Baron de Montesquieu
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't… — Robert Breault
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. — Jacques Delille
Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control. — Richard Bach
In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and… — Richard Dawkins
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to… — Denis Diderot
Waiting upon the Lord gives us a priceless opportunity to discover that there are many who wait upon us. Our children wait upon us to… — Robert D. Hales
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them. — Baron de Montesquieu

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