1,263 Quotes About Parents

Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventures, story-tellers, and singers of songs.

It’s time we stand up and demand more of the fathers of this world. It’s time we stop buying into their rationalizations and their sorry explanations. It’s time we give our kids a fighting chance.

I cannot separate the man you are now from the boy you were then, and it's killing me. I wanted everything for you, son.I still do.

When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.

Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?

Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.

Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn't know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with.

Give your children enough attention and love that they won't go around seeking love and validation from other people, that they end up saying or doing bad things to get love and attention.