Parental Quotes

127 quotes by 119 authors

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and… — Diane Abbott
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day… — George Fordyce
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that… — John Leo
Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins… — Ronald Reagan
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so… — Margot Fonteyn
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human… — William Bartram
The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter. I have no way of knowing… — Charles Mathias
A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if… — Jean Paul
In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single… — Carl Correns
My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn… — Gregor Mendel
It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child… — Abraham Lincoln
What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information,… — Carol Bellamy
I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,… — Corey Taylor
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,… — Ruth Bernhard
College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself… — Anne Hathaway
I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation. — Alec Baldwin
I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my… — John Lone
For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to… — Riane Eisler
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin

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