Best 3570 quotes in «parent quotes» category

But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.

By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role.

By not paying attention to your body, you are putting it in the same predicament as a neglected child. How can a child be expected to develop normally if the parents pay no attention, if they ignore its cries for help, and remain indifferent to whether their child is happy or unhappy?

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.

Chemistry is like an indefinable thing. When it comes to people playing your best friend or your parents or anything like that, there's always different kind of element to chemistry.

Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.

Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.

Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

Children become more liberal partly as a reaction to their parents and partly through education. Education tends to make people a bit softer.

Children do not find it difficult or complicated to talk to their parents, nor do they feel embarrassed to bring the simplest need to their attention. Neither should we hesitate to bring the simplest requests confidently to the Father.

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents.

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

Children in Indonesia are scared because they are like the property of their parents and mostly treated as such. Women are scared because they are humiliated on a daily basis and treated like meat, like sexual objects, like slaves.

Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us personally. Some children will make poor choices just as some adults do in smoking and drinking to excess; this is part of life. When we outlaw child pornography, the prices paid for child performers rise, increasing the incentives for parents to use children against their will.

Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?

Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

Children of those who have been incarcerated are five times more likely to go to prison than children of parents who have never been incarcerated. The sins of the father visiting the child.

Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular family type.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?