All Quotes

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.
‐‐ Estelle

Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
‐‐ Judith Martin

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

Parents should keep 'Eyes Wide Open' next to the 'Kinsey Report' on their shelves.
‐‐ Paul Fleischman

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.
‐‐ John Walters

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.
‐‐ Christy Turlington

Parents should plant deeply the seed of the work ethic into the hearts and habits of their children.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Parents should support and love their kids no matter what.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
‐‐ Robert Winston

Parents should watch what their children watch and not use TV as a babysitter. If a show is objectionable they should turn it OFF. They should write the president of the network and tell him they are never going to watch that program again and why.
‐‐ Bill Bixby

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
‐‐ Samuel Richardson

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
‐‐ Claire Cameron

Parents still have a big influence on their kids - just ask any therapist. No, really, I think the parent is the most important influence on children: It's how they learn to love and treat other people.
‐‐ Judy Blume

Parents talk a lot about how much strength and dedication it takes to raise a child. I think it also takes a lot of strength and dedication to carve out a life that doesn't seem normal to anyone else.
‐‐ Jen Kirkman

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
‐‐ Barbara Mikulski

Parents walk a fine line between discipline and grace - values have to hold even when circumstances change or call for compromise or compassion. It's the ultimate challenge to be both firm and fluid, soft and strong, yielding yet rock solid.
‐‐ Kristin Armstrong

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
‐‐ Ogden Nash

Parents who neglect their children, who don't know where they are, who don't know what they're doing, who don't know who they're hanging out with, you're gonna find yourselves spending some quality time with your kids, in jail, together.
‐‐ Michael Nutter

Parents who struggle to get a witness of the Savior into the heart of a child will be helped as they seek for a way to bring the words and the spirit of the Book of Mormon into the home and all the lives in their family.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
‐‐ Sam Ewing

Parents will purchase the dot-com name for their baby. We have been aware of some instances where somebody didn't name their child a particular name because the dot-com wasn't available.
‐‐ Bob Parsons

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.
‐‐ Mark Sanford

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
‐‐ John Locke

Parents, you know, can be terrible.
‐‐ Diana Vreeland

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.
‐‐ Shukla Bose

Parineeta is a classic love story.
‐‐ Sanjay Dutt

Paris ain't much of a town.
‐‐ Babe Ruth

Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
‐‐ Rachel Perry

Paris, as always, is swarming with Americans, and these days, it's also swarming with hamburgers. Oddly, though, it's not typically the Americans who are pursuing the perfect burger on the perfect bun with the obligatory side of perfect coleslaw; the Americans are pursuing the perfect blanquette de veau.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
‐‐ Edmund White

Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool.
‐‐ Janine di Giovanni

Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
‐‐ Edward Rutherfurd

Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.
‐‐ James Fenimore Cooper

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.
‐‐ James Wolcott

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Paris Hilton's house was pretty exciting.
‐‐ Israel Broussard

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.
‐‐ Jeremy Irons

Paris is a beautiful city.
‐‐ Bubba Watson

Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.
‐‐ Golshifteh Farahani

Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
‐‐ Bridget Kelly

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

Paris is always a good idea.
‐‐ Audrey Hepburn

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.
‐‐ Pontus Hulten