Parents Quotes

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.

I'm the son of highly functioning parents who I'm incredibly lucky to have.

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents' legs and cowered for shelter.

The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you're a teenager you've probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you're going to.

Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

I would say that my parents were supportive of me.

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.

My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.

My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.