Parents Quotes (2641 Quotes)

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.

So you interrupted my date to make fun of me for still living with my parents. Couldn't you have done that on a night I didn't have a date? That's most nights, in case you're curious.

Probably, if I had lately left a good home and kind parents, this would have been the hour when I should most keenly have regretted the separation: that wind would then have saddened my heart; this obscure chaos would have disturbed my peace: as it was I derived from both a strange excitement, and reckless and feverish, I wished the wind to howl more wildly, the gloom to deepen to darkness, and the confusion to rise to clamour.

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

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.

I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a parent.

Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or flea that lived on the bodies of men. If...there was a raising of the dead, then a child would be sure to see that its parents were awakened.

. . . for events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

The foundation is just everything. Throughout my childhood, my parents were always behind me in everything I wanted to do. Having the support behind me made me strive and keep striving and just have that no-fear attitude. ... We do everything together.

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.

It's frustrating for parents, it's frustrating for the principals, and it's frustrating for teachers who have to stay late to monitor kids (who also get picked up late after school). It's a difficult situation all around.

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

I don't worship Catholicism for Catholicism's own sake. I have felt the need to experience a sense of belonging with a religious community, because my parents were convinced atheists.

While lobbyists are not allowed to pay for a trip, the parent company can. Which is confusing, because the lobbyist can come along.

Kids for the most part talk to me about parents gossiping about each other and the other kids. I can't think of one kid who didn't know where her parents fit in the parents' social hierarchy.

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid.

My parents wouldn't let me have a dog when I was a kid. I tell them they should have let me have one back thenI wouldn't have so many now.

Our parents were musicians.

Parents don't want their child to be punished for being late because it's their fault.

Everybody's going to make mistakes out there. But they're doing the best they can. But we've rarely had any issues, and I'm very proud of our parents.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

There are a lot of parents who want their kids to be active and involved in sports.

You have to sit down with kids at ages 6, 7, 8 and start to inoculate them against this insanity by having these awkward conversations about what they might see. Parents have to get to these kids first not last.

Parents and teachers have brought children back. We've been told this is the most ideal Halloween event -- a high-class, sophisticated haunted house in beautiful, elaborate surroundings. We don't have to put blood anywhere, because the house and the stories are interesting enough.

Technology is essential to our everyday lives. With graduation around the corner, parents, family and friends can help their graduates gear up for the next stage in life by investing in the right blend of technology products and services.

The bottom line is that adoption by gays and lesbians is a fine thing to do. There is simply no credible research showing that children are harmed when they're adopted by gay and lesbian parents, but lots of evidence to indicate that they do well in those homes.

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

The parents should have been notified. I was never notified, and that concerns me.

He had been given a strong faith through his parents. As an adult, in his teen years and early college, he kind of got away from the church, and ended up going to St. John's University in Minnesota. Tom was very intellectual, enjoyed the discourse with monks, had a lot of questions, and I think the monks provided a great insight into the faith he had grown up with and somehow had been missing.

He did a good job with the program and made himself accessible to kids and parents. He did it a lot better than most.

Therefore the public, specifically parents, should be able to turn on their televisions and radios and expect decent and reasonable material.

We are a school of choice. We receive more applications for students than we can select. Parent involvement is part of the mission of our school. The community of learners includes the parents.

We know some of the children have talked in school saying their parents were picked up.

Kids are often more familiar with these products than parents, but they don't realize how harmful these products can be to hearing. It can lead to a lifelong ailment.

For kids, there's a second peak in the evening, perhaps because parents are getting home, doing that last check before bed.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

The younger generation is very different from our parents. There has been a big change in Chinese values.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life

Now there are thousands of people with those names that wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for them. This generation of parents is looking to get away from cookie-cutter stuff, and our culture of celebrities is supporting that.

Just giving them that adult that they know they can come to for support...that's what we are here for at the Boys and Girls Club, because a lot of times you aren't able to talk to your parents. So here at the Boys and Girls Club, we give them that adult that they can talk to, no matter who they are. Mr. Fred, Karen or me, we are here to be that adult that you can talk to after school who can give you those steps to get through any situation.

There's this frenzy that the parents want their babies to be so smart.

The support has been great this year. The parents have really supported the kids.

When parents read to their children, their children are better readers. If parents don't have literacy skills or have never been read to, or they have never found joy in a book, it's really difficult for them to make that transition.

We give money to children and young unmarried people. It goes from the higher generation to the lower one - you wouldn't give money to your parents, for example. People also exchange gifts. It could be anything - people spend a lot of money.

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

For the parents, it's a little window into what's popular and a way for them to relate to their kids more.

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

More than 60 percent of our funding comes from local individuals, churches, businesses, organizations and the Bucyrus Area United Way and 40 percent comes from grants and fundraisers that we hold. Also, while we are a nonprofit organization and do not charge the parents of our children who use the program, we do ask them to make a pledge. One mom gives us the change out of the bottom of her purse a few times a month and that is fine. We want any child who wants to attend the program to be able to and that is another concern about having to move. With the decent amount of room we have now, we still have 20 children on a waiting list. If we have less room at a new location, that will mean less children can attend. We do not want to see that happen.

I thank the parents for sending me the finished product. These guys were truly ambassadors for our program. I can't tell you how many teachers have told me what a great group they've been in the classroom. That same attitude that made them successful in the classroom made them a success on the court.