Top 1200 Best Parents Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.

Let's ask their parents. And will those children point to their parents and tell us you really need to enforce the law against my parents? Because they know what they were doing when they caused me to break the law. I don't think we've thought through this very well. But there's a reason why in the president's DACA programs he didn't grant his unconstitutional executive amnesty to the parents of dreamers.

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

The values my parents taught me were the best gift I ever got.

My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.

Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we all do.

If a child has divorced parents, the best thing you can do is help add stability to their lives.

I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be polite.

You may not understand your parents' interpretation of love and what they think is best for you, but you have to trust it.

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

My parents are both lawyers, and my father always said his best cases have been returns, cases that come into his office from another lawyer. So he said, "Never be ashamed to take a return." All my best roles have happened because someone else dropped out at the last minute, and God bless those actresses for their queeny fits, their sprained ankles, their better job turning up, because that's how I've got my best work.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Like all parents, I want to give my kids the best start in life.

I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children.

I'm very privileged to have great parents, caring parents, parents that dedicate a lot of their time and energy to their children, and we're very thankful for that.

Often parents know what's best for their kids without having to learn from others.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

I support parents making the best decisions for their kids' education.

The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But where a child comes from a less supportive home environment, where there are family tensions perhaps, their schoolwork can suffer. They need to be taught to think and study for themselves.

Now that I'm a grandfather myself, I realize that the best thing about having grandkids is that you get the kid for the best part of the ride - kind of like owning a car for only the first 10,000 miles. You can have your grandchildren for a couple of days and then turn them back over to the parents.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

My job is to help parents give their children the best start in life.

I had the best example set by my parents for what a couple can - and, in my opinion, should - be.

Children do best when their parents live together in stable relationships, when two incomes can be a catalyst for opportunity.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

We see systematically taught in our high schools today that kids not have to hear their parents, that they can make their own rules, and not even live by what their parents, so there's no guidance from the parents. And there's a concerted effort why - government must be their God.

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

You can't disrespect my parents. They stopped visiting me because whenever they came, they would be disrespected. It came to a point where I had to choose between my parents and Shweta. I chose my parents.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.

Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher.

You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children see their parents treating them this way, they then recognize the parents' authority. It speaks louder than words. Their new respect for the parents is as good for them as it is for the parents. It never works to demand respect of children. It must be given willingly as a result of strength of good character in the parents, which is manifested by their non-reaction to stress in the children.

Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.

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

All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

Small, slow growth is the best I expect from an investment. I'm a real saver: frugal - like my parents.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

I respect my parents a lot, so I try my hardest to be the best son I can.

My parents make sure we have everything we need so that we compete to the best of our abilities.

The best way of thinking of an attachment in my view, is to see it as the outcome of an interaction between two people, each of whom contributes to the quality of the relationship. Most parents can promote a secure relationship with a calm, pleasant, patient baby. Only particularly sensitive and patient parents can promote a secure attachment to a difficult baby.

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Individual children are separated from their parents only when those parents cross the border illegally and are arrested. We can't have children with parents who are in incarceration.

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

Parents will always be your only true fans who want the best for you.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

Anybody that lives in America and has parents with a moderate amount of wealth can be spoiled. I see it every day - kids who are just running their parents over to get what they want because kids are smart, and they know they can manipulate their parents.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

I try to keep a balance. I actually believe that children want normal parents, they don't want celebrities or important parents or anything different from all the other parents.

I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.

That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

I couldn't have gotten this far without my beautiful parents. I'm also very lucky to have the best friends that I do.