PARENTS QUOTES III

quotations about parents

Parents quote

In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well.

WM. PAUL YOUNG

The Shack

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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

AIMEE BENDER

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake


It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

SEAN COVEY

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens


I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know, without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares.

ABBOTT ELIOT KITTREDGE

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child, has given that dignity to the discharge of a duty, common to the whole animal world, that only reason can give.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

OSCAR WILDE

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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From the first dawn of consciousness, it was a parent's love that beamed upon our hearts, and awakened all their best and holiest sympathies.

SUSAN FERRIER

Destiny; Or, The Chief's Daughter

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I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

PAUL REISER

Familyhood

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Parents are not interested in justice -- they want QUIET!

BILL COSBY

Himself

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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.

CHRISTOPHER MOORE

A Dirty Job

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All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes -- morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.

E. M. FORSTER

Where Angels Fear to Tread

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Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.

JESSICA ALBA

Marie Claire, March 2008

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Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat, college.

WOODY ALLEN

Annie Hall

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Parents who are ignorant of their duty, will be taught by the misconduct of their children what they ought to have done.

M. LAFAYETTE BYRN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Parenting is the science of art of upbringing children.

SIMON SOLOVEYCHIK

Parenting for Everyone


By becoming a parent, a service has been rendered to God and the country.

ZOROASTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different.

TANA FRENCH

In the Woods


A suspicious parent ... makes an artful child.

THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON

Nature and Human Nature


The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents -- because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

FRANK ZAPPA

Mojo Magazine, 1993


The hand of our parents traces on our feeble hearts those first characters to which example and time give firmness, and which perhaps God alone can efface.

VOLTAIRE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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