Top 1200 Great Parents Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

My parents taught me a great thing when I was a little kid to not read newspapers or follow the media.

I was educated in a deeply kind of un-politically-correct way. I went to St. John's College which is this kind of Great Books school which is equally popular with hardcore conservatives who want their kids to read the Great White Men canon and sort of free-thinking liberals like my parents.

I think we're such great parents together - I could not have picked a better partner to have kids with.

Both my parents were working in politics when I was growing up, so going on stage was not that great a leap.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship with both of them.

My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

I think private school is much better at customer service and making the parents feel better, especially in Los Angeles. It's almost like a spa for the parents where you drop your kids off, where they give you a beautifully baked thing and let the parents write their own newsletter about global warming.

My parents have been very supportive. To survive in this industry, you need a great support system, and I am really blessed to have one.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.

I had great parents, and they trained me well and instilled great values in me. They also taught me common sense about money and that I couldn't count on the good fortune of doing a show forever. Therefore, I never spent money I didn't have and didn't end up destitute like other child actors.

I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

My parents are great. On every job, my whole family and I try to get as many breaks as I can.

There's a whole bunch of other young parents that are just like me. I need to be a great example.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

I think the fact that my parents are still, "Hey, great, that's great!" and not, "We need you to do this and be a star!" - it was never like that. My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.

My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

You are under great scrutiny when you are adopting, more so than natural parents. There are a lot of interviews, screenings etc.

My brother and I have always had a great interest in people and building relationships. I probably have my parents to thank for that.

When I raced, I had great parents, even a greater coach and a nutritionist. I was never insecure.

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

I get a lot of parents coming up to me, telling me they are grooming their kids to be professional athletes. I'm really against that. I think it's a great life, and yeah, you can lead them in that direction. I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it, they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.

I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually.

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.

I have amazing parents and some really great friends that would kick my butt if I ever started acting different.

I was born in Joliet, Illinois. It was totally Midwestern - small, little house, two great parents, and a sister and a beagle.

My parents are great listeners Which is why I never tell them anything

If we will do our part and take a strong stand for our families, God will do His part. He'll help us to have great marriages and great relationships with our parents and children.

Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation to beget another when parents can secure so little for their children, so little safety, even in the best circumstances. Great faith is required to give the child up, trusting God to honor the parents’ love for him by assuring that there will indeed be angels in that wilderness.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

I've learned great lessons from my parents for things on the court and off. I really look up to them.

I have always believed that the way my parents disciplined me has a great deal to do with the success I have enjoyed as a man.

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

All my kids are great, because of my mother. Every Sunday, we're over there at my parents' place for lunch.

I may not be the number one movie star, or my films might not be doing too good. I am grateful for what life has offered me. I have got a great family, parents are together, have a great sister, I get to holiday. All these things make me grateful towards life, for everything. I always say - have an attitude of gratitude.

Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.