Top 240 Parents Quotes

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can’t do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

Parents don’t make mistakes because they don’t care, but because they care so deeply.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

I always have to brace myself when I visit my parents. My mom often greets me with a slew of nonconstructive criticisms: ‘Jimmy, why is your face so fat? Your clothes look homeless and your long hair makes you look like a girl.’ After 30 years of this, my self-image is now a fat homeless lesbian.

The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children’s right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

If I tell a man he needs to quit his soul-sucking job, he has to go home and fight with his wife or fight with his parents and fight with his in-laws and fight with everybody, because men aren’t supposed to be happy; they’re supposed to do well.

I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

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.

My parents can’t always travel with me because my little brother is a world champion on dirt bikes.

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn’t yet know how to say: ‘I’m lonely, in pain, frightened’ – distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child’s world: the parent.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it’s worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It’s not on any map, so unless you know it’s there, you won’t find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It’s great!

My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents’ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn’t go to school because my home was my school.

Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn’t know my hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my brother and I would live our lives.

So many times, people told me I can’t do this or can’t do that. My nature is that I don’t listen very well. I’m very determined, and I believe in myself. My parents brought me up that way. Thank God for that. I don’t let anything stand in my way.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

I had a weird accent. Dutch people speak American English, and my parents were Jamaican, with their own broken English.

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

I have God, Jesus Christ: I’m Christian. I try to stay as grounded as I possibly can. And I have my parents that help me and my friends that are really great accountability partners to me.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, ‘I can do this for real and not go to college.’ When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

That’s the best gift you can give to your parents – a diploma.

My parents were supportive. I didn’t have good grades, but they could tell I wasn’t lazy.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I’m not interested in hurting their feelings.

I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and then, much to their dismay, I became a stand-up comedian.

I’m not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn’t born to the purple.

I grew up a competitive swimmer. I wanted to go the Olympics. Both my parents were professional swimmers. I competed internationally quite often, right up until I moved to California to pursue music.

So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an only child. I always had all my cousins around. I had my grandparents around. I had my parents around. I had my uncles around – whatever.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

As parents, we teach our kids about things we feel competent in. That’s why so many parents don’t teach their kids about money.

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Ensuring that we help prepare all kids for life, college, and work in our knowledge-based economy will require a collaborative, sustained effort from all stakeholders – from the president and the secretary of education on down to states, school districts, principals, teachers, parents, and community members.

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept the audience’s affection inside a Broadway theater – that didn’t come easily to me.

I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.

I’m not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Parents are one’s companions in life but not partakers of one’s karma.

I’m of Russian-Jewish background. Like many Soviet Jews, my parents were engineers. My family migrated from Ukraine to Israel when I was six. They arrived in Israel with very little… Within a year of arriving in Israel, the Yom Kippur War happened.