Parents Quotes

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Nikola Tesla

Colette

Cicero

Philip Roth

John Woolman

Anthony Trollope

Samuel Morse

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.

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.

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.

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.

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

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

Laurence J. Peter

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 central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

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

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

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.

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.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!

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

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.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

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

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

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

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

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

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

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

Clarence Darrow

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.