1,263 Quotes About Parents

Like so many of the things parents do out of loving solicitude, putting pressure on girls to lose weight has no good outcomes and a lot of bad ones.

Many parents, especially those who themselves struggle with their weight, believe that a child is incapable of self-control when it comes to eating.

One of these is a wish to please their parents and to be universally liked. A result of this is that they have not allowed themselves, or been allowed, to express feelings of anger or upset, nor have they felt that they have the voice to do so.

We "are" the people our parents warned us about.

All dead fathers seem to have been good men.

My parents are really good people. . .and mostly normal. . .Their rules made practical sense--eat your vegetables, don't ride your bike through cow manure, and don't let your little brother eat his boogers--all of which were good but weren't exactly rules with life-changing consequences if they weren't followed.

It was silly of me to expect [my father] to change or to understand what he had done. So I decided I wasn't obliged to be angry anymore, and I feel very good that we were able to spend time together during the five years before he died.

Sometimes the people with the worst childhoods make the best parents. They're more emphatic because of what they have endured.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.