Top 1200 Divorced Parents Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When I got divorced and moved into an apartment, I started keeping the TV on, just for company.

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

Anyone who's ever been divorced knows that it holds a lot of emotions.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing kids and, therefore, we wouldn’t have a problem at all. But what’s missing in that equation is that you do have a lot of parents in this country who are very involved in their children’s education and who do want something better. They want to see better for their kids. They know that they’re in schools that aren’t performing particularly well and if you look at how we treat those parents, it is quite poorly.

When I got divorced I was so happy. I love to be spontaneous, I was enjoying my freedom.

Whether you’re gay, straight, divorced, on drugs, a prostitute… I don’t care. Be who you are and love who you want.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

This verse made me realize that I've divorced an entire aspect of my life from God: eating

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all bets are off: the last chance at reconciliation or change or hope is gone. Whatever relationship we had with our parents, that's it. No more chances for something else.

Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren.

Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd be sheltered from evil secular influences - sex, drugs, alcohol, and a questioning mentality. A place where children would be forced to become good little clones of their parents.

My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I learned from my parents is that the fancy degree is just a foot in the door, and there are a lot of very smart people out there who don't necessarily have the fancy degrees. And given the opportunity, they can do amazing things.

Mr. President, How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

My parents are pretty strict 'education first - fun later' kind of parents.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.

Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.

How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

Married in 1983, separated in 1987, and divorced in 1988. Enough said.

Words divorced from action supporting them are meaningless and hypocritical.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice.

My parents wanted us to be pool-safe, so I had lessons when I was 18 months old. I would like to share with all the parents out there that I was that kid who cried during every one of my lessons. But it wasn't an option for my parents; we had a backyard pool, so I needed to learn how to swim.

My parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously, they're not even my real parents.

I don't think any of us would be who we are if our parents weren't who they were. People that are in show business, and their parents are not in show business, their parents probably motivated them to get in show business.

It's a crazy time right now with kids. They are so much, more savvy than even their parents are. They are handing down their devices to their parents. They are giving their parents the old iPad in exchange for the new one. It's a whole different world nowadays and they are in control and in charge of technology. It's scary but at the same time it's exciting. There are a lot of choices for them.

I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

Think about reading: Today, parents would love it if their kids read books more because the parents understand the books. Just over 100 years ago, parents were upset because their kids were reading dime-store novels. Parents would say, "I don't want you inside reading anymore. Get outside and play." I guarantee you, in 50 years or so, parents are going to say, "You're not going outside to play until you finish that video game."

Parents should be able to develop goals about the type of parents they want to be.

I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.

Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something is wrong with me.

'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught don't celebrate - they'll take it away from you. And his parents were taught that, and his parents and parents' parents. Because if you did celebrate, and you were visible, it could be very, very dangerous.

My parents have sacrificed so much, more than any parents really should.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

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.

Only in England would 'professor gets divorced and remarried' be a story.

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

I always wanted to do something about what it's like to get divorced, especially when it's a young marriage to start with.

Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything over there. My family got stripped of everything - of their land, of their jobs, everything.

as everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

I made my first million by the time I was 31 and promptly lost it when I got divorced.

Michael was divorced, lonely, and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, 'I will have your babies.'

Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.

I don't think anyone gets married thinking that they will get divorced.

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

I want to ask parents, when daughters turn 11 or 14, they keep a tab on their movements. Have these parents ever asked their sons where they have been going, who they have been meeting? Rapists are somebody's sons as well! Parents must take the responsibility to ensure that their sons don't go the wrong direction.

I never wanted my private and public life to mix as much as they did when I got divorced.