Parents Quotes

"Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are na•ve."

"I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children."

"The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom."

"Love well, whip well."

"My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest."

"Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet."

"I'm just doing what I've been taught by my parents to do, ... This is the right thing to do, and I'm trying to urge other people to do it."

"Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?"

"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."

"I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not."

"? it comes onto the parents' radar."

"We need to remember that we won?t always be playing for our parents."

"The comic is about one dog, one baby, and one house, I feel like my parents!"

"I bought my parents some stuff. That feels kind of good to be able to do that. I got them a place in Florida. I think I'm allowed to say that - I hope my dad doesn't get mad at me. But I don't spend money on myself. I don't like myself enough yet. But the people I love, I like spending the cash on them."

"We often have parents who trickle in and meet the teachers."

"Handsome" means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business."

"If a student knows their parents are looking online, they'll want to do their homework and stay in school because they'll know Mom or Dad will see if they've skipped class."

"Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear."

"I don't think my parents know what I do."

"We have a great team here. And we've received tremendous support from parents. We're really trying to bring this whole thing together to have a successful transition."