1,263 Quotes About Parents

No child, no matter what path they may have chosen, should be abandoned by the people who should love them the most. When two people come together and make the conscious decision to create a life, they have an obligation to protect and love that child until death.

It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us.

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)

Love, respect and appreciate your parents as it is the one gift they truly cherish and desire.

The bizarre thing is that I like the rules. They mean someone’s watching out for me. I’m well aware that I’m probably the only sixteen-year-old who doesn’t mind strict guardians.

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, 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.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.