Garrison Keillor Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Ignorance, Kids

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.22, Penguin

• It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful. Good parents are the hardest to get rid of.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Parent, Survival

• America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.

  Garrison Keillor

  Simple, America, Parent

• A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

  Garrison Keillor

  Hard Work, Eye, Boys

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

• Those people on daytime TV talking about how their parents never gave them the positive feedback they needed and that's why they shot them- those are not Minnesotans.

  Garrison Keillor

  Talking, People, Parent

  Garrison Keillor (2004). “Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America”, p.9, Penguin

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