Parents Quotes - Page 2

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

It's not always easy being her daughter.'

I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It’s for their own good.

It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. - ME

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

You'll stay with me?'
Until the very end,' said James.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity.

Nós, pais erramos muito e frequentemente porque os manuais são genéricos e nosso produto específico.

A criança ao nascer já traz um determinado potencial; são os pais, no entanto, que podem torná-la capaz de realizar esse potencial

Pais que não conhecem a si mesmo não são capazes de evitar a reprodução, em seus filhos, de suas disfunções

Os homens têm experiência de séculos a mais que as mulheres em: malsentir, antever e precaver. Quando levadas ao mundo do trabalho "masculino", as mulheres aceleram seu desenvolvimento nessa mesma direção e, dessa forma, as crianças estão deixando de aprender a amar, ou, ao menos, se afeiçoar.

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.