Parents Quotes

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Nikola Tesla

Colette

Cicero

Philip Roth

John Woolman

Anthony Trollope

Samuel Morse

Man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

You are not an accident. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He wanted you alive and created you for a purpose. Focusing on yourself will never reveal your real purpose. You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Only in God do we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance and our destiny.

If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Laurence J. Peter

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.

Robert N. Bellah

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.

Anthony Trollope

There are so many disciplines in being a parent besides the obvious ones like getting up in the night and putting up with the noise in the day. And almost the hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain, to show them we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrother

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

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. It is possible for parents to be corrupted or improved by their children.

Parents—especially step-parents—are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

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

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending.