Parents Quotes - Page 7

What do your parents know, about surviving?

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them.

If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes - morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

Have times really changed? Don't we today, as always, love our children and want them to live righteously? Don't we today, as always, need God's divine protecting care? Don't we today, as always, continue to be at his mercy and in his debt for the very life he has given us?

No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would be to the child. She'd expect that young man to be perfect, smart, and talented, everything to compensate for all the mistakes that she'd made. The whole wasted, unhappy mess of her life.

We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become.

I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child.

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me.

I wanted everything for you, son.

I still do.

When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.

That's what children are for - that their parents may not be bored.