Parent Quotes

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The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. — Joyce Maynard
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy — Barbara Walters
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as… — R. D. Laing
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
A good parent gives their child roots and wings. — Jonas Salk
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. — Richard Whately
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural… — Charles Spurgeon
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke
Don't get involved with anyone who doesn't respect his mother. — Mia Farrow
My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do. — Gwen Stefani
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. — Jacques Delille
Who am I? I'm a survivor. I'm a woman with tremendous inner resources and resilience. I care about people. I believe in 'Do unto others… — Jane Fonda
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
The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very… — Arnold Bennett
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the… — Phyllis McGinley
My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller. — Joan Rivers
My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?"… — Joan Rivers
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that… — Leo Buscaglia

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