1,263 Quotes About Parents

Anything can start to taste good if you have enough positive memories of being fed it by a parent.

I'm afraid,' wrote someone on a school report, 'that Claudia's intelligence may well prove a stumbling-block unless she learns how to control her enthusiasms and channel her talents.' Of course, intelligence is always a disadvantage. Parental hearts should sink at the first signs of it.

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children.

We came around the corner and stood in the doorway of what looked like a paint-testing ground. This was where we proved once and for all that we were good loving parents. We decided to let him live."What is painting doing in my best Tupperware bowl?" I yelled."Well, I needed something lightweight I could carry around with me," he began."You've been carrying around a brain for year," the boy's father said.

To the world, most people are not remembered for being great parents. To the child, without parents, nothing great would have been put into the world.

Parents don't ever be okay with your children just getting by in life. This lack of concern is not helpful, but actually harmful. You are actively participating in sabotaging your children's personal growth and development needed to thrive as a fully functional self-reliant adult.

Who could say why worthwhile people have worthless children?

People who fell in love at first sight, rushed home to their parents to tell them the good news and subsequently married were, [Patricia Highsmith] thought, retarded. Rather, a more honest appraisal of the nature of love positions it nearer to the horrors of mental illness. How else could you explain the fact that so many people were prepared to sacrifice the safety and cosiness of their lives for the thrill of a new romance?

The one who say thanks to his mother and father , is the biggest fool in the world.