Parent Quotes - Page 5

• I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Believe, Athlete

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• Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• Presence is more than just being there.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Funny Relationship, Parenting, Focus

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• Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Parenting, Reality

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

  Billy Joel

  Years, Play, Piano

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Oct 22, 2013

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• Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Children, Parenting

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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• When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

  Greg Mortenson

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Humility

  Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.140, Penguin

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• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Change, Family

  Vom Werden der Pers"nlichkeit (On the Development of Personality, 1932) in Gesammelte Werke (1972) vol. 17, p. 194

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• There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

  Jill Churchill

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mothers Day

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• The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

  William Shakespeare

  Family, God, Meaningful

  William Shakespeare (2010). “Double Falsehood: Third Series”, p.118, A&C Black

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• If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Growing Up, Parenting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1868). “John Ploughman's Talk; or, plain advice for plain people”, p.35

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• When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Parenting, Moon

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• From the beginning of my days, it comes right back down to my parents. Raising all the kids. They really taught me principles of hard work, honesty and integrity. Those are the things that will always carry with you. My brother and I carry on those qualities that my parents have taught us. It helps keep me in check.

  Charlie Brenneman

  Brother, Honesty, Integrity

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The whole world is conscious. It's just that we become conscious at times, and you become conscious when you lose a parent, or just a loved one, period - a wife, a brother, you know. You wake up and say, "Man, it's real. I don't need this pimp gangster stuff anymore, I need something with a little more substance." And there is marketing for that.

  KRS-One

  Brother, Real, Men

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• Parents' ability to survive a child's unabating needs, wants, and demands...varies enormously. Some people can give and give....Whether children are good or bad, brilliant or just about normal, enormously popular or born loners, they keep their cool and say just the right thing at all times...even when they are miserable themselves, inexhaustible springs of emotional energy, reserved just for children, keep flowing unabated.

  Stella Chess

  Children, Spring, Emotional

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• If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Children, People, Saint

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• No one has ever found an organism that is known not to have parents, or a parent. This is the strongest evidence on behalf of evolution.

  Tom Bethell

  Evolution, Found, Evidence

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• Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

  Andrew Solomon

  Kids, Attachment, Down Syndrome

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• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Thinking, Lucky, World

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• The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.

  Kal Penn

  Sports, Jobs, Weekend

  "The GQA: Kal Penn". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Events, World, Thinker

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.106, Lulu.com

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• Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.

  Margaret Halsey

  Exercise, Boys, Thinking

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.

  Joan Baez

  Tattoo, Reality, Brain

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