All Quotes

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.
‐‐ Lisa Ling

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.
‐‐ Marguerite Moreau

Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig

Parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles are made more powerful guides and rescuers by the bonds of love that are the very nature of a family.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
‐‐ Frank Pittman

Parents can only do what they think is best, with the experience they have. The learning curve for every parent is that there's a limit to how much they can shield children from.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
‐‐ Robert MacNeil

Parents can really help, but they can also really hinder the development of their youngsters.
‐‐ Mike Krzyzewski

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

Parents can't monitor what you are doing on Snapchat.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.
‐‐ Barbara Delinsky

Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.
‐‐ Shiv Khera

Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents.
‐‐ Teri Hatcher

Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.
‐‐ David Blunkett

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
‐‐ T. Berry Brazelton

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
‐‐ Rod Blagojevich

Parents don't take a baby's temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us to do what is necessary.
‐‐ George Akerlof

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.
‐‐ Mark Hoppus

Parents - especially step-parents - are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.
‐‐ Anthony Powell

Parents, first and foremost, it is important to... understand and recognise the activities your child is naturally gravitating towards. It's important also to ensure that your child likes what he or she is doing. I believe in exposing children to as many hobbies and extracurricular activities as possible.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
‐‐ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
‐‐ Pat Buchanan

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

Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!
‐‐ Jeff Garlin

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.
‐‐ Mike Fitzpatrick

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.
‐‐ Aretha Franklin

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.
‐‐ Chaz Bono

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
‐‐ Jane Howard

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
‐‐ Susan Orlean

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
‐‐ Camryn Manheim

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
‐‐ Muriel Spark

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.
‐‐ Philip Yancey

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
‐‐ George Santayana

Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.
‐‐ Dan Webster

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.
‐‐ Morley Safer

Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.
‐‐ Kimberly Quinn

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
‐‐ Lee Haney

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
‐‐ Erik Erikson

Parents need a full continuum of care and support from birth to kindergarten that is affordable and accessible - that means full day and full year. And let's not forget that even in elementary school, working parents need access to the same kind of quality, affordable after-school programs!
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
‐‐ Bernice Weissbourd

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
‐‐ Phil McGraw

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
‐‐ Zachary Quinto

Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
‐‐ Haim Ginott

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.
‐‐ Steven Pinker