Parents Quotes
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.Lewis Blaine Hershey
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.Jim Morrison
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus
How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.Edward R. Nida
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.Clarence Darrow
The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.Andrew H. Malcolm
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.Martin Luthe
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing - - Something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left - Over time in which to play with their children.Brian Sutton - Smith
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.Australian Aboriginal Elde
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.Pope John Paul II
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.Benjamin Spock
You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.Harry S Truman
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.A. J. Toynbee
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.David Bowie
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.Helen Hayes
They do not leave home without American Express. ... Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight.Roger Rosenblatt
Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.Alan Watts
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
The young always have the same problem - How to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.Quentin Crisp
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.Ogden Nash
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
