Parent Quotes
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Sometimes... I think parents work so hard to keep us from making their mistakes, they won't allow us to make our own.
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As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion.
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No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.
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I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children
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There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
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The best that a parent can be... A demonstrator... A consistent, constant demonstrator of being in your own Vortex.
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I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.
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I was at the breakfast table this morning and I read in the newspaper that more and more adults are living at home with their parents. That surprised me, I was like Mom did you read this?
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My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.
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Children learn to smile from their parents.
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I feel no obligation to teach my readers anything, to impart any sort of wisdom, to teach any sort of lesson, to instill any sort of morality. All I'm trying to do is make them and their parents laugh.
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Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.
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As any parent can tell you, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They’re probably doing something they don’t want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they’ll hide the evidence.
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Coaches build teams, parents build players.
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My parents were marvelously educated people.
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I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate.
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A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."
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I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves.
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There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
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I grew up Mormon. I wasn't really Mormon, my parents were.
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I bought my parents a home before they died, and they got to see that I was going to be all right. They always thought I would go someplace.
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A jazz musician is not a jazz musician when he or she is eating dinner or when he or she is with his parents or spouse or neighbors. He's above all a human being . . . the true artform is being a human being.
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All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.
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The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.
