Accepting Quote by Christopher Lasch

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

— Anthony Powell

Parents: They want you to act older...but treat you like a kid...

— Jerett Parker

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject…

— Julianna Margulies

Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people.…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

— Anonymous

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

— Anthony Powell

“We achieve some measure of adulthood when we recognize our parents as they really were, without sentimentalizing or mythologizing, but also without blaming them…

— Carl Sagan Ann Druyan

When you're young, you think your parents are embarrassing and always saying and doing the wrong things, but as you get older you really…

— Tom Daley

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth…

— Louise J. Kaplan

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

— Vera Brosgol

Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing.

— Werner Erhard

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.

— Shiv Khera