P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.”
Source: Memoir and Letters
“Parents and children resemble each other no more in the foods they like than couples do, suggesting that nurture - who you eat with - is more powerful than nature in determining our food habits. Whatever our innate dispositions, our experience with food can override them.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Parents and children seldom act in concert:
each child endeavors to appropriate
the esteem or fondness of the parents,
and the parents, with yet less temptation,
betray each other to their children.”
Source: Rasselas: A Tale
“Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.”
Source: The Wild Child
“Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.”
Source: Wise Up
“Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of an unhappy girl whose physical adornments, to her thinking, don't invite adequate attention. Heaven help the girl who gets the kind of attention she is seeking by being overpainted and underdressed! She will rue the day, of course, when she gets the kind of attention her flagrant invitation is giving.”
“Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.”
“Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be on their best behavior, raise their arms and spread their legs for the police without complaint, stay in failing schools, pull up their pants, and refuse all forms of illegal work and moneymaking activity, even if jobs in the legal economy are impossible to find. Girls are told not to have children until they are married to a "good" black man who can help provide for a family with a legal job. They are told to wait and wait for Mr. Right even if that means, in a jobless ghetto, never having children at all.”
Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.”
“Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.”
“Parents are a pillar of support and comfort when adversity strikes. They encourage and strengthen us but at our back they cry and weep on our behalf. God bless all responsible parents.”
“Parents are already telling their kids about falling in love online - there's nothing "frightening" or "dystopian" about this. So, the critique doesn't work, because we already consider our dystopic state of affairs normal.”
“Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
“Parents are always the obstacle. You would think, after millions of years, kids would have figured a way around them.”
Source: Zonked Out: The Teen Psychologist of San Marcos Who Killed Her Santa Claus and Found the Blue-Black Edge of the Love Universe
“Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.”
Source: Life and Writings
“Parents are defined by their mistakes.”
Source: Anxious People
“Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.”
“Parents are funny things. As an only child, I studied them like apes in a zoo—their whims, habits, moods—and believed it was my duty to make them happy, There was no Child Number Two. Everything fell on me.”
Source: Swarm Theory
“Parents are heroes already - all they have to do is start acting like it.”
“Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness.”
Source: Midnight’s Children
“Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.”
Source: Breaking down the wall of silence: the liberating experience of facing painful truth
“Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.”
“Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account”
“Parents are led to believe that they must be consistent, that is, always respond to the same issue the same way. Consistency is good up to a point but your child also needs to understand context and subtlety . . . much of adult life is governed by context: what is appropriate in one setting is not appropriate in another; the way something is said may be more important than what is said. . . .”
“Parents are like consumer brands in that, as kids, we remember only two or three key things about them, missing the nuance you only appreciate as you get older and realize people are complicated.”
Source: The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.”
Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
“Parents are living gods. They do everything to make their children happy and expect nothing in return.”
Source: Letters To My Son
“Parents are made to be children’s filters for the outside world.”
Source: Reclaiming Femininity: Saving Women's Traditions & Our Future
“Parents are much more likely to be attuned to what they don't like than they are to the expectations that the kid is having difficulty meeting.”
“Parents are never forgiven for not giving just the right response at the appropriate moment. Or, rather, there are particular times in the adolescent's or young adult's life, when a certain response is needed, and this need is not met, and the failure to meet this need is forever remembered, and is never forgiven.”
“Parents are not alone in focusing their expectations on success at the graduation exam: The whole education system colludes with them. The curriculum and organization of schools often date back to a colonial past, when schools were meant to train a local elite to be the effective allies of the colonial state, and the goal was to maximize the distance between them and the rest of the populace.”
“Parents are not bestowed with angels to cherish, but unripe fools to correct" (Proverbs 22: 15)”
“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”
“Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.”
Source: Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember
“Parents are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already have the point... and they're still yelling.”
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that's kind of a strange belief. Given what we know about the way people really are. Selfish and shortsighted and egotistical and needy. Why should being a parent, in and of itself, somehow confer superior-personhood on everybody who tries it? Obviously it doesn't.”
Source: Freedom
“Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.”
“Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.”
“Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.”
“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”
“Parents are the bones we cut our teeth on, but they never talk about the parents’ own teeth. They never talk about the bite that you learn to see coming.”
Source: From Under the Truck: A Decidedly Un-Celebrity Memoir from the Enigmatic Actor
“Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.”
“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.”
“Parents are the most confused people - they urge us forwards into every next stage, but then hold us back if they transition becomes inconvenient. Grow up! Don't grow up so fast! What's the right speed? What's the right way?”
Source: I Am Out with Lanterns
“Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.”
“Parents are the most precious gift given by the god. We should take care of it.”
“Parents are the roots that give us wings to fly, Forever Grateful, Forever in Our Hearts.”
Source: FOREVER GRATEFUL: The Vital Role of Parents in Our Lives
“Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.”
“Parents are to teach their kids, to give them tools and opportunities in which to learn and grow. Parents are not to learn for their kids, for what benefit is it to anyone if we prevent our children from acquiring their own knowledge?”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year