Quotes on Parent

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. [...] And I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other.

Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe.

Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.

Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right.

We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning.

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads — fiercely heterosexual. A society that puts down homosexuality. And why am I a homosexual if I'm affected by role models? I should have been a heterosexual. And no offense meant, but if teachers are going to affect you as role models, there'd be a lot of nuns running around the streets today.

The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.