Parents - Quotes

Follow your dreams and aspirations, but listen to your parents. Live your life to the fullest, but respect your parents guidance. Make decisions according to your beliefs, but honour your mother and your father. Your life is an extension of your parents. Live it with respect, dignity, trust, and love. - Alvaretta Roberts

A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with. - George Washington

Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. - Gary Smalley

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. - Mitch Albom

Appreciate your parents. You never know what sacrifices they went through for you. - Unknown

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents. - Jane D. Hull

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments. - Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Don’t be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring. - Unknown

Don’t demand respect as a parent. Demand civility and insist on honesty. But respect is something you must earn – with kids as well as with adults. - William Attwood

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you’ll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn’t. - Mitch Albom

I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know everything and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things than them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right. - Tiger Woods

If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent. - Bette Davis

If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them – not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. - Anne Bronte

If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job. - Unknown

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

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. - Maya Angelou

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. - Roald Dahl

It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. - Joyce Maynard

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

Listen more to your kids and talk less. - Unknown

Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces – down to the last glassy splinter. - Saul Bellow

Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. - Ezra Taft Benson

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. - John Locke

Parenting is the toughest job on earth as you are responsible for the physical, emotional & mental development of another human being. - Unknown

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other ‘isms’ grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. - Roger Ebert

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something. - Chuck Palahniuk

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing. - Erik Erikson

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. - Barbara Walters

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it. - Haim Ginott

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

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. - Croft M. Pentz

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put your kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely near-sighted gaze. - Garrison Keillor

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents. - Christopher Paolini

The depth of the love of parents for their children cannot be measured. It is like no other relationship. It exceeds concern for life itself. The love of a parent for a child is continuous and transcends heartbreak and disappointment. - James E. Faust

The duty of Parents to their Children does not terminate in giving them existence. - Wellins Calcott

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education. - John Updike

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. - Jim Morrison

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being’s mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it’s too hard. - John Lennon

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. - John Dryden

The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them. - Confucius

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. - Henry Ward Beecher

We’re parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place. - Tim McGraw

When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. - Robert Brault

You don’t always know what your kids will do, but your kids should always know what you will do. - Joyce Sanders

You will never really know what kind of parent you were or if you did it right or wrong. Never. And you will worry about this and them as long as you live. But when your children have children and you watch them do what they do, you will have part of an answer. - Robert Fulghum