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Parents Quotes by Alice Miller
- Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the…
- People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth…
- People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems…
- Child abuse is still sanctioned — indeed, held in high regard — in our society as long as it is defined as child-rearing. It is…
- Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.
- Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a…
- The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and…
- I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively--because idealization of…
- Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling…
- We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents…
- The commandment to refrain from placing blame on our parents, deeply imprinted in us by our upbringing, skillfully performs the function of hiding essential truths…
- Today I should not be identified with any kind of regressive therapy. Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents…
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- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
- When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to… — Erykah Badu
- I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do… — Erykah Badu
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is… — Russell Baker
- My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot
- I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models. — Charles Barkley
- We're not meant to be parents when we're 50. — Roseanne Barr