Parent Quotes

• When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Pleasure
  • Parent
  • Sing

• The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.

  

  Alexander Sutherland Neill
  • Parent
  • Function
  • Anxious

• I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

  

  Sean Covey
  • Children
  • Challenges
  • Communication

• Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • Culture
  • Grew
  • Migrants

• Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.

  

  William Gouge
  • Children
  • Discipline
  • Middle

• The patent talks about anticipatory package shipping, which the press seized upon as though Amazon could somehow mail you something before you bought it.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Parent
  • Mail
  • Amazon

• My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • Parent
  • Scientist
  • Raised

• My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

  

  Cathy Ladman
  • Marriage
  • Couple
  • Argument

• Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Freedom
  • Parent

• There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

  

  Darold Treffert
  • Parent
  • Doe
  • Educational

• To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their own salvation, so that their own sin does not get in the way. We can be saved from irritation and anger! Children can quickly sense if their parents are irritated, and then the children can be easily provoked and react stubbornly.

  

  Esther Smith
  • Children
  • Anger
  • Salvation

• There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.

  

  Richard L. Evans
  • Children
  • Home
  • Understanding

• There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Future
  • Child
  • Parent

• Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Pain
  • Child
  • Facebook

• As a child, I was called stupid and lazy. On the SAT I got 159 out of 800 in math. My parents had no idea that I had a learning disability.

  

  Henry Winkler
  • Children
  • Stupid
  • Math

• I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Firsts
  • Kitchen
  • Birth

• A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • People
  • Children
  • Moving

• Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Teach
  • Eclipse

• Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you live in a cheap lousy apartment. A cracked chair is nothing other than a chair. A dandelion growing out of a crack in the sidewalk outside your front door is a garden. You could believe that a song your parent was singing in the evening was the most tragic opera in the world. It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • World
  • Believe
  • Song

• We have reached the age, those of us to whom fortune has assigned a post in life's struggle, when beaten and smashed and biffed by the lashing of the dragon's tail, we begin to appreciate that the old man was not such a fool after all. We saw our parents wrestling with the same dragon, and we thought, though we never spoke a thought aloud, 'Why doesn't he hit him on the head?' Alas, comrads, we know now. We have hit the dragon on the head and we have seen the dragon smile.

  

  Ernest Lawrence
  • Age
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• I'm not comparing myself with Donald Trump or anybody else - but the people are fed up with the politicians ignoring the problem. The people are fed up by if they say something about the influx of the mass immigration from mostly Islamic countries, what they really feel is the threat for the safety of their daughters who go to school or their parents who walk in the park or themselves going shopping on a Thursday evening in Holland - they are being called racist if they make a remark about, 'hey this is not our country anymore.'

  

  Geert Wilders
  • People
  • Country
  • School

• We won't win until the average parent believes drug reform protects kids better than the war on drugs.

  

  Ethan Nadelmann
  • Kids
  • Win
  • Drugs

• My brother and I had a really privileged relationship with my parents... They treated us like adults.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Brother
  • Parent
  • Privileged

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