P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace of mind. The first step toward these things is embracing truth about our “fallen” mental health system”
Source: Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know
“Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.”
Source: Thoughts on religion, and other subjects
“Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.”
“Parents find many different ways to work their way through the assertiveness of their two-year-olds, but seeing that assertiveness as positive energy being directed toward growth as a competent individual may open up some new possibilities.”
“Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.”
“Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.”
“Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.”
“Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.”
“Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.”
Source: Concrete
“Parents have a right to expect that their efforts at home won't be undone each day in the school cafeteria or in the vending machine in the hallway. ...Parents have a right to expect that their kids will be served fresh, healthy food that meets high nutritional standards.”
“Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.”
“Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.”
“Parents have bought into the world’s pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people’s sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.”
Source: Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz
“Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and their elders' cold unconcern toward others. Maybe the homeless are not the only ones who need to spend time in these places to thaw out.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your greatest glory and reminding you where you came from and demonstrating that you still have some of it between your toes.”
“Parents have such wonderful resources available to help them make family time more meaningful, on the Sabbath and other days as well. They have LDS.org, Mormon.org, the Bible videos, the Mormon Channel, the Media Library, the Friend, the New Era, the Ensign, the Liahona, and more—much more. These resources are so very helpful to parents in discharging their sacred duty to teach their children. No other work transcends that of righteous, intentional parenting!”
Source: Accomplishing the Impossible: What God Does, What We Can Do
“Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.”
“Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes.”
“Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not.
That's completely asinine.
The truth is that adults love in different ways, not the only way.”
Source: The Edge of Never
“Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not.”
Source: The Edge of Never
“Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.”
“Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it's up to the children to live up to those principles.”
Source: The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy
“Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.”
“Parents have to understand, that even if their child isn't showing athletic excellence in a certain sport, they still need to be involved. They don't need to be involved in a military type of setting, they just need to get out and play and enjoy themselves and find it themselves.”
“Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.”
“Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.”
Source: Two Worlds and Their Ways
“Parents impart such invaluable ingredients as genetic code, Sanskaar, and Education … whereas The Almighty God just hands out to us destiny … So life is just about bettering or be battered by Destiny!!”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored your strengths or may not have encouraged you to develop them. You can discover your basic capacities by experimenting with things that you always wanted to do. Don't be discouraged by notions that seem "silly" or "foolish" or "not you." Do it! Who knows what will happen?”
“Parents in the early half of the twentieth century were primarily concerned with the development of character in their children. They wanted to be certain that their children were ready to cope with adversity, for it was surely coming to them one day whether in personal or national life. The development of character involves self-discipline and often sacrifice of one's own desires for the good of self and others. Montessori education, developed in this historical period, reflects this emphasis on the formation of the child's character. However, parents today are more likely to say their primary wish for their children is that they be happy. In pursuit of this goal they indulge their children, often unconsciously, to a degree that is startling to previous generations. All parents need to remember that true happiness comes through having character and discipline, and living a life of meaningful contribution -- not by having and doing whatever you wish.”
Source: Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
“Parents in the Northeast sometimes invoked the name of Andrew Jackson to frighten misbehaving children.”
Source: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
“Parents inspire me everyday”
Source: The Simplest Baby Book in the World: The Illustrated, Grab-and-Do Guide for a Healthy, Happy Baby
“Parents just don't understand.”
“Parents know all about the verses related to how children should behave but not so much about those that remind them about how they should behave.”
Source: Families Where Grace Is in Place
“Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on”
Source: Wake Up, I'm Fat!
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
“Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.”
Source: Reaching for the Invisible God: What Can We Expect to Find?
“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.”
“Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children.”
Source: My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century
“Parents’ love is not conscious, rather it is ethereally organic.
Parents’ love is not seasonal. Their love is a voluntary decision to
be with their offspring, no matter what. Their love does not need
answers, confirmation, validation, or acceptance. It thrives on its
own and overflows like the purest waters from the mountains,
irrespective of what it may have to cascade through. The deepest
cockles of my heart reverberate with their love and keep me on the
go.”
Source: LOVE TOUCHES ONCE & NEVER LEAVES ...A Blooming & Moving Love Saga!
“Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.”
“Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'”
“Parents may be forced to face issues presented by an adult child who gambles, and, by extension, their adult child’s spouse and perhaps even their grandchildren.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Parents may feel tremendous anger and a sense of betrayal just as spouses and companions do. But there is also a great deal of confusion surrounding the origin of the problem since parents generally feel responsible for their child’s upbringing. This is one of the primary points at which the path of the parents diverges from the path of other non-gamblers. Gamblers might be able to make the other nongamblers in their lives feel as though they have contributed to the problem in the family, but a parent may actually feel that they have caused it.”
Source: GAMES COMPULSIVE GAMBLERS and WE PLAY Second Edition
“Parents may not show love, but they feel it.”
“Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.”
Source: Lord Perfect
“Parents must begin to discover their children as individuals of developing tastes and views and so help them be, and see, themselves as thinking, feeling people. It is far too easy for a middle-years child to absorb an over-simplified picture of himself as a sloppy, unreliable, careless, irresponsible, lazy creature and not much more--an attitude toward himself he will carry far beyond these years.”