Top Parents Quotes

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the educati...

Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times...

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first...

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment...

You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance...

When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my pa...

My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

We all have to love you, and believe inyou, and think you are looking out for our best interests. But look at us, Momma, and really see us.

I've always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a m...

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.