Quotes On Parents

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Your children need your presence more than your presents. ~Jesse Jackson~
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum~
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. ~Bette Davis~
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~Abigail Van Buren~
The quickest way for a parent to get a child’s attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~Lane Olinghouse~
Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~Robert A. Heinlein~
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~Roger Lewin~
Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. ~Gail Sheehy~
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~Hodding Carter, Jr.~
If your children spend most of their time in other people’s houses, you’re lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you’re blessed. ~Mignon McLaughlin~
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ~Haim Ginott~

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
Yogi Berra

We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
Walt Disney

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael Jordan

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato

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.
Jim Morrison

On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.
Rodney Dangerfield

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Rodney Dangerfield

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Rodney Dangerfield

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Rodney Dangerfield

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson

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

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
Erma Bombeck

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody Allen

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Quotes On Parents