Parent Quotes

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On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. — Amos Oz
I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room. — David Copperfield
Any parent wants what is best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what… — Tony Blair
Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing… — Evan Esar
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a… — Pablo Casals
Parenting needs to come to the forefront. — Bill Cosby
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the… — Theodor Reik
Teaching my kids to give back is an essential part of parenting. It's not something that's optional. Compassion is one of the basic values that… — Kate Snow
Next to God, thy parents. — William Penn
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is… — Confucius
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of… — James E. Faust
We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity,… — Michael Gurian
Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired… — Michael Gurian
Failure in school does not mean failure in Iife. — Stephen J. Cannell
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent. — George Bernard Shaw
Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to… — Thomas Traherne
I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities,… — Hugh Hefner
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my… — Tony Visconti
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents… — A. E. van Vogt
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit… — April Winchell

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