Parents Quotes

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".
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates
David bowie - i think that we have created a new kind of person...
Batman - batman you killed my parents. the joker what what...
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.
Author Unknown
My parents only had one argument in forty - Five years. It lasted forty - Three years.
Cathy Ladman
Edward r. nida - how you lose or keep your hair depends on how...
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
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 are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham Lincoln
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997
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
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
You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.
Australian Aboriginal Elde
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
Rachel Blanchard
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
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
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
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.
George Chapman