Parent Quotes

4993 Parent quotes by 3126 unique authors

The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for research in biological… — J. B. Priestley
It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead of annoying Negroes… — Adolf Hitler
Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and… — Arjuna Ardagh
Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism;… — Saint Augustine
Utilitarianism is a civilization of production and of use, a civilization of "things" and not of "persons," a civilization in which persons are used in… — Pope John Paul II
Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and… — Barack Obama
Civil society rests on moral relationships. They are covenantal rather than contractual. They are brought about not by governments but by us a husbands and… — Jonathan Sacks
I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities. — Tina Fey
But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start… — Rajneesh
Accomplishments of children shine most brightly in the light of a parent's sincere praise. — Wes Fesler
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. — Unknown Author
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and… — Jack Kerouac
Believing that your parents are always right. — Paulo Coelho
To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run… — Zhuangzi
I feel very strongly that I am under the influence of things or questions which were left incomplete and unanswered by my parents and grandparents… — Carl Jung
All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to… — John Woolman
You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to… — Alfie Kohn
The empty nest is underrated. — Nora Ephron
I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. — Mignon McLaughlin
Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way… — Cyril Connolly
I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is… — Bertrand Russell
Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their… — John Ruskin
The children despise their parents until the age of when they suddenly become just like them - thus preserving the system. — Quentin Tarantino

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