Quotes about Parents

Parents should be the most important examples for their children. Votes: 4

Parents just don't understand. Votes: 3

Parents, you know, can be terrible. Votes: 3

Parents are Blessings ,Blessings brings Happiness ,Keep Parents Happy Votes: 3

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. Votes: 3

The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children. Votes: 3

Parents shouldn't leave their kids unless "”unless they've got to. Votes: 3

Parents aren't sex education experts just because they are parents. Votes: 3

Parents should support and love their kids no matter what. Votes: 3

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful. Votes: 3

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young. Votes: 3

God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited. Votes: 3

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. Votes: 3

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. Votes: 3

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids. Votes: 3

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too. Votes: 3

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion. Votes: 3

Parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. Votes: 3

Parents can tell but never teach, unless they practice what they preach. Votes: 3

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home. Votes: 3

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. Votes: 3

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing. Votes: 3

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. Votes: 3

Parents are to be respected - it Is a commandment from God. Votes: 3

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life. Votes: 3

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on Votes: 3

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on. Votes: 3

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid. Votes: 3

Parents don't know their children at all.No one knows anyone, in fact. Votes: 3

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too... Votes: 2

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given. Votes: 2

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Votes: 2

Spies and parents never sleep. Votes: 1

Strict parents create sneaky kids. Votes: 1

Children see beauty in everything. Votes: 1

Our fathers never leave us. Ever. Votes: 1

she hated everything her parents loved Votes: 1

What do your parents know, about surviving? Votes: 1

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers. Votes: 1

A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother. Votes: 1

Children are the greatest blessing from God. Votes: 1

Home is our greatest place of trials. Votes: 1

Love is the fruit of a sacred-soul. Votes: 1

You'll be alright," I say, "Mum likes you. Votes: 1

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy. Votes: 1

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children. Votes: 1

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators. Votes: 1

Don't let what your parents do disappoint you. Votes: 1

I write to get ideas out of my head Votes: 1

The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event. Votes: 1

You're being parental', I said. 'Go find that squid'. Votes: 1

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people Votes: 1

I could say it all began with my mother. Votes: 1

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. Votes: 1

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster. Votes: 1

Leave Dad alone" I told Aislinn. "His Britishness is sort-circuiting. Votes: 1

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime. Votes: 1

You're not supposed to laugh at your own father. Ever. Votes: 1

Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations Votes: 1

YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH. Votes: 1

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years. Votes: 1

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring. Votes: 1

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes. Votes: 1

... education is the second food a parent can give a child. Votes: 1

Our parents are always an important part of our inner life. Votes: 1

My parents are going to kill me!""That seems rather harsh... Votes: 1

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers. Votes: 1

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent. Votes: 1

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last. Votes: 1

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet. Votes: 1

Watu wanahitaji elimu na ajira kuwaepusha na janga la madawa ya kulevya. Votes: 1

My parents are great listenersWhich is why I never tell them anything Votes: 1

Poverty doesn't make parents unfit any more than wealth deems them appropriate. Votes: 1

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them. Votes: 1

Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character. Votes: 1

Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children? Votes: 1

The outcome of insane parents is either a murderer or an intellectual. Votes: 1

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn. Votes: 1

The wonders of a child can only be understood by the child. Votes: 1

The best way to teach a child is live an exemplary life. Votes: 1

Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers. Votes: 1

No matter how far we come, our parents are always in us. Votes: 1

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. Votes: 1

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Votes: 1

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job. Votes: 1

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. Votes: 1

Leesha knew from experience that when parents don't parent, kids grow up fast. Votes: 1

I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once. Votes: 1

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? Votes: 1

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents. Votes: 1

Every sacred marriage will survive all times with great love and patient commitment. Votes: 1

If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall. Votes: 1

No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children Votes: 1

A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole.""In the Shape of Shep Votes: 1

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Votes: 1

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth. Votes: 1

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home. Votes: 1

Isn't a kid alive who doesn't dream about rewarding her folks, or punishing them. Votes: 1

Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted. Votes: 1

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home. Votes: 1

As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up. Votes: 1

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time. Votes: 1

Sheesh, one hot girl walks into the house and all trust vanishes. -Vane Weston Votes: 1

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child. Votes: 1

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other. Votes: 1

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will. Votes: 1

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents. Votes: 1

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy. Votes: 1

There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. Votes: 1

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their priorities. Votes: 1

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child. Votes: 1

How to advise parents for being successful in raising children stillremains an important unsolved problem. Votes: 1

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. Votes: 1

The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young. Votes: 1

RETURN TO TENDEROur aging parents deserve the same loving care they gave us in infancyKamil Ali Votes: 1

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. Votes: 1

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Votes: 1

I couldn't keep myself from wondering how on earth I got to have such demented parents". Votes: 1

But the world hinges on good fathers and those who would be the merchants of confidence. Votes: 1

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look, Votes: 1

I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them. Votes: 1

The best part about having kids is not actually having to have kids. Thank you, women. Votes: 1

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. Votes: 1

When you treat a person right in the present they turn out better in the future. Votes: 1

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making. Votes: 1

The one who gives shade to others, is the one who is standing directly into Sunlight. Votes: 1

Parents are the most precious gift given by the god. We should take care of it. Votes: 1

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. Votes: 1

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later. Votes: 1

Don't deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness. Votes: 1

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways. Votes: 1

A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things! Votes: 1

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Votes: 1

Kinder lieben ihre Eltern zuerst. Nach einer Weile beurteilen sie sie. Selten, wenn je, verzeihen sie ihnen. Votes: 1

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. Votes: 1

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. Votes: 1

Every time, he breaks your hearts. And every time, he expects me to pick up the pieces. Votes: 1

I had a couple of friends in high school. And by a couple I mean my parents. Votes: 1

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one. Votes: 1

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away. Votes: 1

An informed parent or caregiver becomes empowered, and empowerment can lead to the best care for our children. Votes: 1

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do. Votes: 1

No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves. Votes: 1

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. Votes: 1

I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents. Votes: 1

And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious. Votes: 1

It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not. Votes: 1

If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go? Votes: 1

Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college, Votes: 1

No matter how knowledgeable you are, respect your parents for their experience and your children for their curiosity. Votes: 1

But Dad looked delighted. "My Mia's singing 'Waiting for Vengeance' to my Teddy. What do you think about that? Votes: 1

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. Votes: 1

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. Votes: 1

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it. Votes: 1

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be Votes: 1

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton Votes: 1

Treat your parents with loving care for you will only know their values when you see their empty chair. Votes: 1

The best words of wisdom that a parent can say to their child is "I Am proud of you". Votes: 1

It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born. Votes: 1

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you. Votes: 1

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them. Votes: 1

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. Votes: 1

Most important jobs of a parent: unconditional love, comfort and protection, and a solid platform and values for future success Votes: 1

Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents. Votes: 1

Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief. Votes: 1

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes... Votes: 1

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child. Votes: 1

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. Votes: 1

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in... Votes: 1

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. Votes: 1

Do you need anything?" she asks. A mom A dad. Someone. Anyone. Can you arrange for that? "Nah, I'm good. Votes: 1

Leave your mark on the world by leaving behind a child who grows up to love and serve the Lord. Votes: 1

If the one who gave me life wants the real me to die... then all I can do is die. Votes: 1

A strange thing has happened as I've aged; I have felt my parents' love for me more strongly every year. Votes: 1

When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait. Votes: 1

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair. Votes: 1

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me. Votes: 1

Inside my house, nobody was home, except everybody, but it was easy to feel like those were one and the same. Votes: 1

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself. Votes: 1

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories. Votes: 1

PartingOne is strong, a child now grownThe other weak, a parent aged-The strong once feebleThe weak once mighty-Time, the infinityhas marked them... Votes: 1

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others. Votes: 1

Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds? Votes: 1

How many of your contemporaries - when asked the question 'Are you glad you had kids'? - invariably respond 'Yes, but..'? Votes: 1

Nothing's scarier than having a sick child, and one so newly born, and so vulnerable. It's the worst thing for a parent. Votes: 1

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with. Votes: 1

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway. Votes: 1

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. Votes: 1

It is not your fault you believe what your parents tell you. It is theirs for telling you unbelievable things. -- ME Votes: 1

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! Votes: 1

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster. Votes: 1

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are. Votes: 1

Never undervalue your most precious assets. Your parents can have not one dollar in their pockets, and still be worth a billion. Votes: 1

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon bits of rock. Votes: 1

The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential. Votes: 1

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. Votes: 1

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap. Votes: 1

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles. Votes: 1

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.--Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath Votes: 1

You do know what I mean about Mom. It's like she radios into headquarters for Dad's feelings when she senses hers need backup. Votes: 1

If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will." Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath Votes: 1

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments. Votes: 1

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now. Votes: 1

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one. Votes: 1

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. Votes: 1

Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with. Votes: 1

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read. Votes: 1

Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong. Votes: 1

Yeah, my parents are crappy, but you hurt either of my sisters and I will spend my life finding ways to destroy you. Votes: 1

It made a big difference in my life to grow up with a dad who wasn't afraid of how great my mom was. Votes: 1

Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on. Votes: 1

Two things we have no control:The family in which you were born it to and the name you were given at birth. Votes: 1

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them. Votes: 1

Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different Votes: 1

They may have been rightly overbearing in her formative years, but they also loved Roselyn enough to trust she needed dreams more than realities. Votes: 1

Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God. Votes: 1

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe? Votes: 1

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state Votes: 1

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay. Votes: 1

Teenagers - tired of being hassled by your parents?Act now!Move out, get a job, pay your own bills.....while you still know everything. Votes: 1

By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them. Votes: 1

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, so long as the ones who are around make their presence in a long way. Votes: 1

Of course, some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be returned. Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something. Votes: 1

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children. Votes: 1

We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change. Votes: 1

Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this. Votes: 1

Oh, Daja," moaned Jory, "you sound just like my parents." She ran from the schoolroom."Well, there's no reason to insult me, "muttered Daja, half offended. Votes: 1

Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I'm older. Votes: 1

How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so very closely, my own detestable mother? Votes: 1

To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world. Votes: 1

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellent, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents. Votes: 1

My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do. Votes: 1

It's easy for parents to pull the strings that make one dance...after all, they are the ones who tied those strings in the first place Votes: 1

DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography) Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find a way to love us anyway. Votes: 1

Half of teachers leave the profession within their first four years, and kids with behaviour challenges and their parents are cited as one of the major reasons. Votes: 1

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up Votes: 1

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates. Votes: 1

Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life. Votes: 1

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. Votes: 1

...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35) Votes: 1

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder, and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. Votes: 1

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. Votes: 1

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. Votes: 1

We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us. Votes: 1

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing. Votes: 1

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. Votes: 1

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad. Votes: 1

That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome. Votes: 1

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread. Votes: 1

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives. Votes: 1

Uwezekano wa watoto wa ukoo mmoja kuoana ni mkubwa kwa sababu damu ina nguvu ya uvutano. Kuhakikisha kwamba familia zinafahamiana na kushirikiana katika mambo mbalimbali ni jukumu la wazazi. Votes: 1

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. Votes: 1

My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy something for me to consume and discard. Votes: 1

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality. Votes: 1

One of the greatest gifts we can give our children is the empowerment to create a life they love, filled with purposeful, enjoyable work, and relationships they hold dear. Votes: 1

It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you? Votes: 1

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I want to go back to the tell-me-again times when I slept in her bed and we were everything together. When I was everything to her. Everything she needed. Votes: 1

She fell down fifty-five floors. It took 10.6 seconds for her to hit the ground. It took my father forty-eight hours to come back home from his business trip in Sweden. Votes: 1

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early. Votes: 1

I'm sure my parents must be proud. Or horrified. Or are bitterly arguing about whether they're proud or horrified, and have already hired lawyers to resolve the dispute. -Hayden Upchurch Votes: 1

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment. Votes: 1

Tatlo ang magulang ng henerasyon natin. Ang tatay, ang nanay, at ang mga patalastas o media. Kaya kung mahina yung dalawang nauna, naagawan sila ng ikatlo sa pagpapalaki sa bata. Votes: 1

Managing in-home nursing is not always easy. It can be terribly frustrating sometimes, and it can take a while to feel like everything is under control, but success is possible. Votes: 1

Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky. Votes: 1

You're perfect. To me you are. You always will be. When you're small you think that about your parents. When you're old, you think that about your kids. You'll see. Votes: 1

Sonia lives her life fully. If she dies tomorrow, she'll die happy. If she lives the way you want her to live, she'll die miserable. So leave her alone, okay? Votes: 1

I was walking down the street and I saw a kid on a leash. I swear all I could think is that I prefer my kids to be free range Votes: 1

But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help? Votes: 1

My two parents represent the single greatest influence on my life. And if my dad had been there for me, it would be the double greatest influence on my life. Votes: 1

The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds. Votes: 1

Only when you are grown up, perhaps only when you have children yourself, do you fully understand that your own parents had a full and intricate existence before you were born. Votes: 1

I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it. Votes: 1

This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent. Votes: 1

Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent. Votes: 1

Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong. Votes: 1

She started dialing his cell, then hung up and tried the landline -- maybe Margaret was a better bet to pick up; their parents' generation still felt morally obligated to answer phones. Votes: 1

I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture,no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love. Votes: 1

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain. Votes: 1

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours-- Votes: 1

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Parents of medically fragile children find themselves becoming experts in lots of different areas, including laws and regulations, research and treatments, and the various specialists that support the health of their children. Votes: 1

Babbit was an average father. He was affectionate, bullying, opinionated, ignorant, and rather wistful. Like most parents he enjoyed the game of waiting till the victim was clearly wrong, then virtuously pouncing. Votes: 1

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm. Votes: 1

It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it. Votes: 1

it is strange that we first hurt by our parents- who are our creator.may be as to regulate us- but its hurt more.we can not forget it's trauma till our death. Votes: 1

onething i have learnt is that parents should treat their kids in a way they would love in return, because growing up litteraly makes you a kid again. you will get it too. Votes: 1

I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder. Votes: 1

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits. Votes: 1

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it? Votes: 1

On my fifteenth birthday, I came to realize that the expression spoiled rotten meant exactly that. We kids were the apples of our parents' eyes, and I, for one, was rotting from inside out. Votes: 1

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken. Votes: 1

I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me. Votes: 1

Why is every mom's concern about sex? There are more important things in life, like school, careers, poetry, books, ice cream, or learning how to make the perfect chocolate cake. It's so damn frustrating. Votes: 1

Parenting goes beyond providing foods, shelter, clothing, and other basic necessities. Nurturing a child to travel in the direction of positive enlightenment, is arguably the greatest thing that you could do for a child. Votes: 1

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough. Votes: 1

Ultimately, what really matters is not just the experiences you have at a young age, but whether or not you are equipped-by your parents, by your genetics, by your education-to survive and deal with them. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost? Votes: 1

I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you. Votes: 1

I'm glad you were both here," I finally manage, thinking how strange it is to be standing with the two people who made you, something most kids take for granted every day of their lives. Votes: 1

If you are a good parent, please continue to be a good one. But if you are bad parent, today is a great new beginning for you to start a great new chapter of parenthood. Votes: 1

Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business. Votes: 1

Aunts offer kids an opportunity to try out ideas that don't chime with their parents and they also demonstrate that people can get on, love each other and live together without necessarily being carbon copies. Votes: 1

My nerves came back in full force. I'd thrown myself in the deep end, and, feeling like I had no idea how to swim, I had to get back to shore somehow. "I'm sorry," I whispered. Votes: 1

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists. Votes: 1

Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and a ghost-woman with ashes on her breath. They clasped and sundered, did the coupler's will. Votes: 1

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children. Votes: 1

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice. Votes: 1

Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in. Votes: 1

My mother is the antithesis of a typical Jewish mother, she is very soft-spoken and takes more naps that a cat. As a result, I've always longed for someone to really annoy the shit out of me. Votes: 1

Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out. Votes: 1

Y'all know how much I love you? "Infinity and back again," I say the way I've said it a million times. And then, daddy says to me, "go on and add a little bit more to that. Votes: 1

My mother is changing history. She is making her balalaika-smashing mother into a heroine. Does she want me to do the same for her? Is that what good children do for their parents? What about good writers? Votes: 1

No one can escape slavery; we are all slaves in some regards. We are slaves to our parent's expectations. We are slaves to the pressures of our peers. We are slaves to our own ideologies and faiths. Votes: 1

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. Votes: 1

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me. Votes: 1

My brother and I were able to fantasize far more extravagantly about our parents' tastes and desires, their aspirations and their vices, by scanning their bookcases than by snooping in their closest. Their selves were on their shelves. Votes: 1

We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns. Votes: 1

Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realise that your parent is complicated, and fallible and human. Votes: 1

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from. Votes: 1

When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.' Votes: 1

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow - that, in short, we are all going. Votes: 1

So often parents of abused children feel helpless. When a child falls, and scrapes her knees parents can erase the hurt by kissing it and putting a Band-Aid on it, but not so with the pain of sexual abuse. Votes: 1

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce. Votes: 1

Even though our journey as parents of a medically fragile child began with emotional turmoil, it has since become a purposeful odyssey that brings meaning and depth to our lives. This is the road we were born to travel. Votes: 1

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing. Votes: 1

When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies. Votes: 1

They fuck you up, your mum and dad? No, that wasn't it at all. Well, they did do that, perhaps, but they also allowed you to become the person, and the writer, that you had it in you to be. Votes: 1

All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would. That's what parents were for. Votes: 1

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. Votes: 1

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't. Votes: 1

The inspector had interviewed boys before, boys from the poorest parts of town. He had the habit of not specifying "mam" or "dad" or even "parents." They were things he knew not every child possessed and so he was careful. Votes: 1

Lolly nods. "Though when is the right time for that? I asked her for a new sports bra since I outgrew my last one and she looked at me as if I'd just asked her to buy me a pony. Votes: 1

You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school. Votes: 1

A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way. Votes: 1

And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent. Votes: 1

The death of a parent, he wrote, 'despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago... Votes: 1

Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about! Votes: 1

The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified in the stillness. Surely, my father hears her now; surely he and I can't go on pretending she isn't crying. Votes: 1

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation. Votes: 1

Hugo, we are taught to be advanced in every form from academically to socially. I think our parents fucked it up, taking that advancement for granted. They wanted us to grow up with everything and in return of that we became spoiled. Votes: 1

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind. Votes: 1

People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood in the same way they moved around the hotel: my mother industrious, hurried, hidden; my father drunk, flamboyant, alone. Votes: 1

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives. Votes: 1

I couldn't make myself imagine Dad holding some creamy-faced baby, cooing at it, telling it he loved it. Taking it to baseball games. Living some life he'd probably consider his 'real life,' the one he deserved rather than the one he got. Votes: 1

We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore. Votes: 1

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. Votes: 1

What is a parent, really, but somebody who picks up the things a child leaves behind - a trail made of stripped off clothing, orphaned shoes, tiny bright plastic game pieces, and nostalgia - and who hands back each of these when its needed? Votes: 1

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to. Votes: 1

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins. Votes: 1

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do. Votes: 1

In short, Nance, even was you going to the very devil himself, your mother and I would rather see you fly from us in joy, than stay with us in sorrow - and grow, maybe, to hate us, for keeping you from your fate. Votes: 1

I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...I had no idea that you could like your parents or that they could love you enough to let you be yourself. Votes: 1

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. Votes: 1

Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English. Votes: 1

All people cross the line from childhood to adulthood with a secondhand opinion of who they are. Without any questioning, we take as truth whatever our parents and other influentials have said about us during our childhood, whether these messages are communicated verbally, physically, or silently. Votes: 1

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?' Votes: 1

The penguins that spent most of their time fighting were the ones with no chicks...It's like they're supposed to be taking care of their chicks. But because they don't have any, they have nothing to do with all their energy. So they just pick fights. Votes: 1

From something as simple as what goes in to a good meatloaf to the not so simple - religion, culture, how you should vote, every damn thing you think or believe, your reactions, your behavior - were partially shaped by who and what your parents were. Votes: 1

If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it. Votes: 1

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year. Votes: 1

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love. Votes: 1

Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith. Votes: 1

So I'll send my parents money, and maybe they can get a bigger place, too. They can even relax when they're older, the way they deserve to. Without having to worry about how they're going to survive. But for now, I'm the one who has to survive. Votes: 1

If I had received good instruction as a child I would be with my family today and at peace with my neighbors. I hope and pray that all you parents in the sound of my voice will train up your children in the way they should go. Votes: 1

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe. Votes: 1

And as Rhonda told the story, she thought: this is how the past gets passed down. This is how memories are made. Half-invented, embellished, given a touch of whimsy. Daniel would be a saint now that he was dead. A beautiful man who made his child wings. Votes: 1

I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it. Votes: 1

Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question the fact that their parents have that right. They may choose to flout the rules, but they don't question their parents' right to make those rules. Votes: 1

First, I'm not getting married, so you can forget the wife. Second, if I was insane enough to get married, I wouldn't have kids. Third, if I was insane enough to get married and have kids, it would be a cold day in hell I'd let you babysit. Votes: 1

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations. Votes: 1

No child, no matter what path they may have chosen, should be abandoned by the people who should love them the most. When two people come together and make the conscious decision to create a life, they have an obligation to protect and love that child until death. Votes: 1

I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry. Votes: 1

Sometimes I wonder if I'm nothing more than the sum of who [my parents] were. Even worse, I worry that I don't add up nearly so well, that I'm just a shadowed reflection of them. Now that question hounds me a lot more often than I like to admit. Votes: 1

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma. Votes: 1

So many times, people told me I can't do this or can't do that. My nature is that I don't listen very well. I'm very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don't let anything stand in my way. Votes: 1

That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165) Votes: 1

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? Votes: 1

But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in the safest place in the world.Instead I had Hell. Votes: 1

My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks. Votes: 1

There are all these things my mother is good for that my father isn't, and all these things my father is good for that my mother isn't, and if only they could work out their differences, or keep the dim of discord to a minimum, I could have two whole parents. Votes: 1

When I was a boy, I passed a homeless man, drunk and begging on a street corner. My father, sensing my disgust, said something I never forgot, that I think of every time I see your face on the news or in the paper- "That man was once someone's little boy. Votes: 1

Age is a seasoned trickster. To our parents, we will always be children. Within ourselves, the same yearnings of youth; the same aspirations of adolescence, will last a lifetime. Only to the young - blinded by our grey hair and slowing gait - do we appear old and increasingly beyond the pale. Votes: 1

Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you. Votes: 1

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. Votes: 1

When her mother combed Harriet's hair, she said that the woods were disgustingly muddy and mosquito-ridden. During her history unit on pioneers, her father bashfully admitted that he couldn't pitch a tent, barbeque, or fight off bears in a forest. They both agreed that such a place was unsafe. Hotels were better. Votes: 1

To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long. Votes: 1

Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. Votes: 1

Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!""Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people. Votes: 1

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them. Parenting can pose unique challenges for introverted parents, who fear that their own painful experiences will be repeated in their children's lives. Votes: 1

It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion". Votes: 1

Dear God," said Nudge under her breath, "I want real parents. But I want them to want me too. I wantthem to love me. I already love them. Please see what you can do. Thanks very much. Love, Nudge."Okay, so I'm not saying we were pros at this or anything. (Max thoughts) Votes: 1

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear "angelic and saintly" as if they never had horrible youth days. Votes: 1

Great. Now Renata would have even more reason to dislike her. Jane would have an enemy. The last time she had had anything close to an enemy, she was in primary school herself. It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself. Votes: 1

Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents. Votes: 1

Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this. Votes: 1

An alarming number of parents appear to have little confidence in their ability to "teach" their children. We should help parents understand the overriding importance of incidental teaching in the context of warm, consistent companionship. Such caring is usually the greatest teaching, especially if caring means sharing in the activites of the home. Votes: 1

A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The one who follows the bus to school on the first day to make sure you made it okay. I have only one mother, Nana; he just happens to be my father, too. Votes: 1

When the Indians saw us whipping our children, they thought at first that we must hate our children, but then they thought, no, no one can hate his child. They decided it must be a religious rite, to make the child hate this world and long for the next. We're a strange vicious people. Votes: 1

Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and those whom your right hands possess (slaves). Indeed, Allah does not like those who are proud and boastful.[Al-Qur'an Surah Nisa 4:36] Votes: 1

I have heard people say love is weak but they're wrong--love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things--patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love--the epic and the small, the noble and the base--the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all. Votes: 1

but my dad said it was no excuse."But I love him!" I had never seen my sister cry that much."No, you don't.""I hate you!""No, you don't." My dad can be very calm sometimes."He's my whole world.""Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom. Votes: 1

Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior. Votes: 1

Her gaze shifted away. "I don't remember my dreams anymore." It was like she was confessing a dirty secret. And maybe it was, because even though he hated the dreams, each time he had them, he was with his parents again. Hearing their laughter. Watching them live. But when he woke up they were really gone. Votes: 1

I was an infant when my parents died.Thye both were ornithologists. I've triedSo often to evoke them that todayI have a thousand parents. Sadly theyDissolve in their own virtues and recede,But certain words, chance words I hear or read,Such as "bad heart" always to him refer,And "cancer of the pancreas" to her. Votes: 1

Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him. Votes: 1

You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.''What tragedy?' asked Mrs. Chatterji.'Well, when she was four,' said Amit, 'her mother slapped her--it was quite traumatic--and then things went on in that vein. When she was twelve she came in second in an exam...It hardens you. Votes: 1

My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My parents taught me what's wrong and right, and knowing that I had a little brother following me, I had to make sure I was doing the right thing so he knows what's right, too. I was in the house nine days out of 10. There wasn't nothing good outside for me. Votes: 1

For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was around the time that most people were heading out. When I was little I was so mad at them all the time. 'Why can't I do this?' 'Why are there so many rules?' But looking back now, my parents gave me the foundation to have so many choices in life. Votes: 1

My parents were Christian. Votes: 0

Our parents were musicians. Votes: 0

Choose your parents wisely. Votes: 0

Are anybody's parents typical? Votes: 0

Teach your parents well. Votes: 0

My parents trust me. Votes: 0

My parents were workers. Votes: 0

My parents were hippies. Votes: 0

Sound has no parents. Votes: 0

Tape record your parents' laughter Votes: 0

Next to God, thy parents. Votes: 0

My own parents were touchy-feely. Votes: 0

My parents really encouraged me. Votes: 0

My parents are retired, basically. Votes: 0

My parents were both entrepreneurs. Votes: 0

Don't listen to your parents. Votes: 0

My parents didn't play golf. Votes: 0

I have the coolest parents. Votes: 0

My parents were incredibly inclusive. Votes: 0

My parents were sixty years married. Votes: 0

My parents are big Shakespeare fans. Votes: 0

It's all about loving your parents. Votes: 0

Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. Votes: 0

The streets was basically my parents. Votes: 0

Our parents are our first oppressors. Votes: 0

We live inside our parents' backstory. Votes: 0

All parents experience the same problems. Votes: 0

My parents are definitely reformed hippies. Votes: 0

Coaches build teams, parents build players. Votes: 0

My parents never really lecture me. Votes: 0

My parents were marvelously educated people. Votes: 0

My parents are deeply pious Hindus. Votes: 0

Both my parents were big readers. Votes: 0

My parents are pretty cool people. Votes: 0

My family, my parents are hippies. Votes: 0

My parents were my worst audience. Votes: 0

I love both my parents dearly. Votes: 0

Both of my parents were musicians. Votes: 0

My parents had a difficult divorce. Votes: 0

My parents created their own war. Votes: 0

My parents were very artistic, but busy. Votes: 0

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque. Votes: 0

My parents didn't really know one another. Votes: 0

My parents think I'm better under pressure. Votes: 0

My parents separated when I was younger Votes: 0

Children learn to smile from their parents. Votes: 0

I owe a lot to my parents. Votes: 0

What do your parents know, about surviving? Votes: 0

My parents were very, very, very strict. Votes: 0

My parents could not be more Italian. Votes: 0

Love doesn't care who your parents are. Votes: 0

My parents were really nice to me. Votes: 0

Where are all the sour patch parents? Votes: 0

My parents have always been very open. Votes: 0

My parents are extremely proud of me. Votes: 0

Write as if your parents are dead. Votes: 0

My parents had a great work ethic. Votes: 0

I'm lucky my parents travel with me. Votes: 0

I had pretty cool parents. Still do. Votes: 0

Drugs will turn you into your parents. Votes: 0

My parents were not theatrical at all. Votes: 0

Self-belief? My parents gave it to me. Votes: 0

My parents got married when I was 12. Votes: 0

Not even my parents know how I vote. Votes: 0

Words are the parents of a causeless wrath. Votes: 0

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows. Votes: 0

My parents don't really watch movies at all. Votes: 0

My own parents loved each other very much. Votes: 0

This is hard for parents to say genuinely. Votes: 0

My parents were secular. I am an atheist. Votes: 0

I'm the only gay person my parents know. Votes: 0

I always felt love from both my parents. Votes: 0

My parents are proud of me being an actor. Votes: 0

I lost my parents when I was fairly young. Votes: 0

My parents wanted me to go to law school. Votes: 0

I was lucky to have parents who loved me. Votes: 0

I was big and fat and had weird parents. Votes: 0

I don't think my parents know what I do. Votes: 0

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away. Votes: 0