Parents Quotes

Don’t spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren’t stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.

~ Carew Papritz

Her gaze shifted away. I don't remember my dreams anymore. It was like she was confessing a dirty secret. And maybe it was, because even though he hated the dreams, each time he had them, he was with his parents again. Hearing their laughter. Watching them live. But when he woke up they were really gone.

~ Caroline Hanson

Love your kids and just be there for them. You don't have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that's too much. All they want is to be assured that there's a home fire cooking, that there are two foremen and a rulebook, and that there's someone to tuck them in at night.

~ Carew Papritz

It’s so easy and convenient to buy our children gifts, but I encourage and challenge you to give them gifts that TRULY matter! The gift of unconditional love. The gift of encouragement. The gift of support. The gift of friendship. The gift of communication, understanding, and patience. The gift of guidance and support. The gift of quality time. And the gift of loving them for who THEY are. Material things are nice, but NOTHING compares to genuine love! Parenting should be taking seriously.

~ Stephanie Lahart

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

~ Dan Pearce

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.

~ Amit Kalantri

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--

~ Carol Rifka Brunt

As you pray for your children, you will find it to be an unending habit of your heart. Being able to positively affect your children in prayer will keep you in close contact with them and actively involved in their lives, even after they leave home. And it will continually contribute to your joy as a parent!

~ Stormie Omartian

When you treat a person right in the present they turn out better in the future.

~ Stacy Snapp-Killian Aka Stacyk

It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children.

~ Elizabeth George

The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated with the Word of God.

~ Elizabeth George

Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this.

~ John Darnielle

Here's a tip for new parents: Start lowering those expectations early, it's going to pay off later.

~ Colson Whitehead

Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How — how?—can I make it always so?

~ Christine Montross

The biggest insult to any parent is a child that lives up to society standards and not his or her full potential.

~ Unarine Ramaru

I thought, Dad.Could I go to Vietnam for you?Dad, I could do it. I could do it for you. I could go to the places you fought. I could find the bits and pieces of your heart and soul left behind. If I bring them back, would it heal your pain?Dad, you gave me life. You made possible every good thing in my life. Why do you insist on fighting your nightmares and memories and monsters alone?You don’t have to do it alone, Dad. I could help you fight.Dad, you know what?I’ll be back before you find out so you don’t have to be afraid. I’m going to Vietnam.

~ Tucker Elliot

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.

~ Amit Kalantri

Parent should never forget the great excitement they felt for the birth of a new born into the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

~ Leslye Walton

Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!

~ Steve Karagiannis

Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with the greater variety of information that is coming forward than you did. They deliberately are coming forth into this environment where there is more to contemplate. This generation gap that you are talking about, it has ever been thus. Each new generation, every new individual, that comes forth, is doing with you having prepared a different platform for them to proceed from. There is this thing that gets in the way of that that says, I'm the parent. I got here first. I know more than you do. From the children's perspective, and from the purity of their Nonphysical perspective, that they are saying is, You're the parent. You got here first. You prepared a platform that I am leaping off from - and my leap will be beyond anything that yo have ever known.

~ Abraham Hicks

DNA, DNA, DNA. You never ever deny it, fool. I thought he is my cold enemy. When he died, he became my father. Says Bhutta (Biography)

~ M.k. Bhutta

In the agricultural age, women conceived younger and had many more children because children were economic assets as workers on the farm. In the postindustrial age, children are emotional assets but economic liabilities, costing both a middle-class husband and wife or a single parent over $10,000 a year.

~ Rachel Lehmann-Haupt

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

~ Cassandra Clare

Once my brother was very angry on my parents and told them “You should have killed me when I was a child” Interestingly I was present and told him “I don’t think it is still too late” and I have never heard him complaining about life.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents.

~ William Stolzenburg

It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

~ Ben Marcus

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

~ Gary Shteyngart

You wanted hatchlings.”“I know. I just didn’t want those hatchlings. Personally, I blame your father.”Bercelak’s eyes grew wide. “Excuse me?”On a burst of laughter, she exclaimed, “Well that came out horribly wrong!

~ G.a. Aiken

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world, the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.

~ Upasana Saraf

For their holidays: the rich go see the world, the poor go see their parents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.

~ Dan Pearce

It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and my mother was the roots with both feet planted firmly on terra quaking firma.

~ Richard Paul Evans

Good parents use the mistakes they did in the past when they were young to advice the children God gave to them to prevent them from repeating those mistakes again. However, bad parents always want to be seen as right and appear angelic and saintly as if they never had horrible youth days.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

~ Criss Jami

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

~ Jan Blaustone

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid appearing to have bred a failure, or, failures … in the eyes of their peers and/or neighbours.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana