Top 255 Parental Quotes & Sayings

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

One of the blessings that comes with parental territory is that children tug you into experiences you're pretty sure you'd never otherwise contemplate.

Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in turn carry the hybrid trait (Aa), the other half, however, receive the parental traits A and a in equal amounts. Thus, on the average, among four plants two have the hybrid trait Aa, one the parental trait A, and the other the parental trait a. Therefore, 2Aa+ A +a or A + 2Aa + a is the empirical simple series for two differing traits.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

To see your spouse in a parental role is one of the most incredible things.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms.

Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

Hi, Mom. (Devyn) It’s the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn)

I've solved my phone addiction by deleting all the apps I was addicted to - email, browser - and getting my wife to add parental controls, to limit access even further.

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

I think parental leave is enormously important - and it's a personal decision. Part of building a company whose goal is to empower women in all aspects of life is that I've given my team some leeway to determine what parental leave looks like for each of them individually.

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.'

The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

I just always play these really extreme characters - they've all come with parental guidance stickers on them.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.

We play lots of roles in our lives, but I got to do that in one movie [Parental Guidance], and ride the feelings, and it was a good challenge for me.

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

On the weekends I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

Maternity leave and parental leave is absolutely vital for strengthening families. It's an issue for men and women.

On my albums, it's as though the parental advisory is built in.

There are parental concerns when one's daughter joins films.

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.

Shared parental leave is good for dads. Looking after their newborn on their own is a unique learning experience.

There's a good amount of research out there that shows generous parental leave policies have a significant positive impact on employee retention and morale.

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

It took five years to get 'Parental Guidance' made, and it was a fight every second.

Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.

Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

People need a parental divine love which will attend to them above all else, no matter what happens

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.

The piece of legislation that I'm so excited and delighted to be doing is shared parental leave.

In an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental-like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York.

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.