Parents Quotes
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
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 incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
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
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty - Five, she needs good looks. From thirty - Five to fifty - Five, she needs a good personality. From fifty - Five on, she needs good cash.Sophie Tucke
In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.Muriel Spark
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them - Thus preserving the system.Quentin
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.Aharon Appelfeld
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
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
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.Clarence Darrow
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.John Locke
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
We are the people our parents warned us about.Jimmy Buffett
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.Sandy Farquha
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.Author Unknown
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
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.Amy Vanderbilt
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
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.Sam Levenson
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.Woody Allen
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fische
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.Mignon McLaughlin
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
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.Louis Johannot
When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets.Jim
The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.G. K. Chesterton
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.Rodney Dangerfield
