Quotes of: Parents Keyword

When your parents divorce, it makes you grow up fast. I'd urge parents to strongly consider working things out. I'd work things out and I'd definitely stay put.

Isla Fisher

My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

Naveen Jain

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

Chinese

What do we say to a guest who forgets her umbrella? Do we run after her and say "What is the matter with you? Every time you come to visit you forget something. If it's not one thing it's another. Why can't you be like your sister? When she comes to ...

Between Parent and Child: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication

When you have children yourself, you begin to understand what you owe your parents.

Japanese

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

Ken Livingstone

Drawing from 1.7 million Gallup surveys collected between 2008 and 2012, researchers Angus Deaton and Arthur Stone found that parents with children at home age fifteen or younger experience more highs, as well as more lows, than those without childre...

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and...

The Parent's Tao Te Ching: Ancient Advice for Modern Parents

At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.

Chosen

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

Double On-Call and Other Stories

If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance.

The Flamethrowers

Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.

Gone Girl

In 'The Big Chill,' those characters are in middle age, thinking, 'Oh, God, I've turned into my parents. I've failed.' And in 'Beside Still Waters,' we're showing the struggles of people who actually want to be like their parents and feel they can't ...

Chris Lowell

I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behav...

Magnus Scheving

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Robert Benton

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even t...

Jennifer Garner

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

All death reminds us that nothing is promised, only that life was worth it.

300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late