Browsing Topic Best Parent Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

As a man, I’ve been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete’s Dragon.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

I have no religion because I was born and raised Jewish. And on the first night of Hanukkah, my parents, when I was very young, gave me a top to play with. They called it a dreidel. I knew it was a top. And as I looked at that top, I said, ‘You know. I don’t think I’m gonna be Jewish for very long.

I actually didn’t enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can’t teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They’re their own person.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

Liberals have been driven to the desperate expedient of attributing . . .social pathology in today’s ghettos to ‘a legacy of slavery’ even though black children grew up with two parents more often under slavery than today.

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

Even if you find yourself in a heated exchange with your toddler, it is better for your child to feel the heat rather than for himto feel you withdraw emotionally…. Active and emotional involvement between parent and child helps the child make the limits a part of himself.

Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good up to a point but your child also needs to understand context and subtlety . . . much of adult life is governed by context: what is appropriate in one setting is not appropriate in another; the way something is said may be more important than what is said. . . .

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.