Regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
Maya AngelouIt's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
Nicholas SparksIf your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.
George CarlinBeing a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
Robert A. HeinleinThe best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar WildeIf you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
Bette DavisIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouNo man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
PlatoTo grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
Maya AngelouEverybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.
Mother TeresaDon't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger WoodsParents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne FrankCare about your children. Just bless them instead of worrying. As every child is the little Buddha whom helps his parents to grow up.
BuddhaTo bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh BillingsI believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry RollinsMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim ValvanoWhat a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee, and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
Rodney DangerfieldForce is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas JeffersonYou can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin Pierce AdamsParenthood is the opiate of the masses.
Chuck PalahniukEverything depends on upbringing.
Leo TolstoyOne believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Aldous HuxleyBecause of its tremendous solemnity, death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
Soren KierkegaardI was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer, because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo CoelhoThe world indeed is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves but they are like heat haze.
BuddhaI don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya AngelouHeredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. PeterChildren begin by loving their parents, after a time they judge them, rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar WildeSometimes it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert because, frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.
Michelle ObamaTelling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.
Arnold H. GlasowThe parents age must be remembered both for joy and anxiety.
ConfuciusGratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy GrahamAs long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret MeadI could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Rodney DangerfieldMy dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially, because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.
Marilyn MansonTeachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth, for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.
AristotlePoverty is the parent of revolution
AristotleEducate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
Benjamin FranklinTyranny or slavery born of selfishness are the two educational methods of parents, all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz KafkaA dewdrop is a perfect integrity that has no filial memory of its parentage.
Rabindranath TagoreIt goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Erma BombeckThe father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
ConfuciusParents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory, children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
George SantayanaMy heroes are, and were, my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael JordanOh nature's noblest gift my grey goose quill Slave of my thoughts obedient to my will Torn from the parent bird to form a pen That mighty instrument of little men
Lord ByronFor the impious act begets more after it like to the parent stock.
AeschylusGod is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.
Sai BabaSecond we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend every parent should have a choice and every child should have a chance.
Mitt RomneyAnd my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
Woody AllenChildren now expect their parents to audition for approval.
Mason CooleyHowever my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds, and neither of whom had been to college - took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. RowlingI have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
Arthur Conan DoyleSeven hundred and sixteen billion dollars funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare and we're going to stop it.
Paul RyanFortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!
P. J. O'RourkeIn the past decade or so the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner which they learned in Wood Shop, eventually when enough things in the home are broken they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
Dave BarryBecause of their size parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'RourkeHow many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.
Michael JordanOf course parents are the most important people in a child's life.
Hillary ClintonYou can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Drew BarrymoreWhenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James MadisonI feel very lucky because of my parents, and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
Hillary ClintonIt is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo BuscagliaI always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.
Hillary ClintonThe soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
Mitt RomneyIf the parent is a drunkard a gambler and a cheat no amount of textbook ethics can cure the sons. I like children and the young innocence. I will not allow them to be blamed. The fault lies wholly on the shoulders of the elders, the parents and the leaders who shape the norms which they imbibe.
Sai BabaThen I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment and there's been a liberating force that's come from it.
Alanis MorissetteI think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals and fairs and karaoke contests and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
Taylor SwiftThese technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
Steve JobsParents are given that name because it is through them that we have the wonderful chance of life on earth. For the sacrifices that they have made for us we must PAY RENTS to them.
Sai BabaIt's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient more transparent and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
Barack ObamaA son has no greater duty, no higher good, than serving his parents.
Sai BabaThe mysteries of creation are marvelous. When two persons meet at any time or place the differences between them are patent. Their forms and manners differ. They differ in their cleverness and intelligence. Their opinions also vary. Without understanding what underlies these differences the materialist thinker emphasizes the differences. Today a growing number of intellectuals ignoring the unity that underlies the diversity propagate the cult of differences. The good persons who realize the unity behind the apparent diversity are dwindling in numbers from day to day. This is highly unfortunate.
Sai BabaI am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
Mitt RomneyClearly this is a tough economic time and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle Obama