A Quote by Ama Ata Aidoo

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Ama Ata Aidoo

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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian - Author
Born: March 23, 1942

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections.

John Ruskin

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Honore de Balzac

It was a frying-pan-to-the-face moment for me where I had to get humble and really cherish it. I was really sad when [Numbers] was over. I'll just say that. Really sad.

David Krumholtz

There is a divine moment in our lives when we become One. It is called pro-creation and it is reborn continually and forever in the future we call children. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents... we fail as God's Children.

Dirk Benedict

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

Criss Jami

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

King George V

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

George V

That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

Rajneesh

Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old. Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.

Alan Lightman

To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.

Francesco Totti

Your children are your retirement plan. Because of that, all parents want their children, their only children, to do really well financially, so that they can essentially take care of their parents when they are older.

Jenova Chen

For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

E. M. Forster

All parents remember the moment when they first held their children - the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket.