Parents Quotes

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!

To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.

An amazing piece of advice for a lot of kids, 50-year-olds, whoever is listening right now: Saving money is a good strategy. I didn't have stuff, but it was because my parents were saving. They were saving. We didn't get toys. They told us to go outside and paint a rock. It was very, very smart because after seven or eight years, he was able to buy a liquor store of his own in Springfield, New Jersey - Shoppers Discount Liquors. He built up a great business.

I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Part of why you love your parents is because they loved you first. Brands need to do that.

Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!

When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home.

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a good life.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.

With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

As one boy said, 'I was thinking all these horrible thoughts about my parents when suddenly it hit me-if they're all that bad, how come I'm so wonderful'

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

My parents didn't care very much what I did, and that was probably a blessing.

My mother used to rock me - and she used big rocks.

I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

Once when I was lost I asked a policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, 'Do you think we'll ever find them?' He answered, 'I don't know, kid. There are so many places they can hide.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Me and my dad used to play tag, he'd drive!

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

My parents always told me I could do anything, but never told me how long it would take

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.

I tell ya, I was an ugly kid. I was so ugly that my dad kept the kid's picture that came with the wallet he bought.

My parents didn't like me. For bathtub toys they gave me a blender and a transistor radio.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark.

I am not going to bury my son! My son is going to bury me!

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

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

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol' man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment.

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?

I used to date a girl from Buffalo. Why can't I meet a girl with normal parents?

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

My parents were glad to see that my new husband looks like a 'regular guy'-no earring or anything. But really I think a man with an earring is better prepared for marriage. I mean, he's already experienced pain and bought jewelry.

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'