Best parent & world Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.”

Ifs World Believe Children Jobs Parent Pawns

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“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.”

Thinking Knows World Parent Lucky Worthy Oscars Best Parents

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?”

Ifs World Parent Wealth Upbringing Contributing

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.”

“Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.”

World May Children Different Girl Parent Levels Boys Teacher Periods Classroom Domain Different Worlds Different Levels Outspoken Like A Boy

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.”

Ifs Thinking World Littles Said Stills Play Kids Parent Play Dates

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“I believe education should be a right for every child, but tragically in many parts of world it is a privilege for certain children whose parents have money. There are 72 million children in the world who don't go to school and many of them are in Africa.”

World Should Believe Children School Certain I Believe Parent Millions Privilege

Author:George Weah

“When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.”

World Reading Parent Tvs Sick Praise Links Bugs Outside World Watching Tv

Author:Lance Loud

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

Ifs World Hard Would Be Kids Wanted School Jobs America Felt Parent Chance Class Careers Growing Up Growing Middle Middle Class Good School

Author:Al Franken

“I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and unbelievable sadness for the parents, families and co-workers effected by this tragedy. We are ALL touched by this either directly or indirectly.... May hearts be comforted at such a devastating time. The world is with you.... I know I am.”

“I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!”

World Writing Children Book Speak Parent Wonder Hundred Letters Get Over Children And Parents

Author:Enid Blyton

“My world was completely different to other boys my age. When I was six I was earning money, and by 10 I was paying more tax than the parents of other pupils. I feel a lot older than my years. Because I was working with adults, I had to mature a lot quicker.”

World Feels Years Different Age Parent Boys Taxes Six Adults Mature Earning Pupils Earning Money

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.”

World War Country Parent Born Dad Doctors Towns My Dad Jew War Of The Worlds My Sister World War Ii World War I Survived Ohio Auschwitz Czechoslovakia Dachau

Author:Julie Salamon

“My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to the loan she got through the GI Bill.”

World War Home Parent Mom Bills My Mom Thanks War Of The Worlds World War Ii Navy Loan Enlisted Gis

Book:That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

Source: That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

“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?”

World Parent Events Thinker Arrivals Epoch Great Events

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.”

World Children Feelings Peace Parent Wife Husband Dependent Husband And Wife Children And Parents Love And War

Author:Dalai Lama

“The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.”

World Kids Parent Women Worst Worst Things

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.”

“When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, their isn't a word to describe them. This month recognizes the loss so many parents experience across the United States and around the world. It is also meant to inform and provide resources for parents who have lost children due to miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, stillbirths, birth defects, SIDS, and other causes.”

“Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.”

“No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.”

Knows World Has Beens Parent Known Know How Circumstances Illusion Errors Ill Experiments Perceive Germs Spoilt

Author:Louis Pasteur

“My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.”

World Parent Safe Safe Places

Author:Pamela Anderson

“I tried to be the greatest boxer in the world and a good parent, too. I had instant feedback on my success as a boxer. Often, parents don't really know if what they are doing is right or wrong until their child is grown and it is too late to change any of the decisions. Whatever my failings as a parent, I am very proud of all my children. It wasn't easy for them to make their own way with such a controversial and public father.”

Ifs Knows World Way Children Father Easy Parent Decision Failing Proud Late My Children Instant Too Late Feedback Controversial Boxers Good Parent

Book:The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.”

World May Children Ends Young Purpose Humanity Parent Views Generations Subjects Instruments Realization Educate Promotion

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.”

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.”

World Ends Fall Parent Responsibility Love You Baby Easier Grandparent Rope Exhaustion Being A Parent Best Of Both Worlds Deeply In Love

Author:Anne Lamott

“The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.”

World Giving Believe Children Littles Humanity Parent Poor Moral Too Much Morality Training Majority Immoral Domain Psychologist Questionable

Author:Jean Piaget

“It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.”

World Reality House Parent Television Grew Grew Up My Family Accidents Farms My Sister Bubbles Dishes Storyteller Family Farms Small Family

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”

World Happens Mother Felt Parent Opinion Advice Horror Discovery Prejudice Folks Realising Superiority Propositions Scorned

Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.”

World Way Years Kind Children Helping Use Reality Parent Goal Can Do Deals Knowing Shapes Concerned Our Children Alternatives Mask Crucial Suggestions Urgent Using Words

Author:Betty Edwards

“Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.”

“Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.”

People World Want Children Might Kids School Parent Missing Doctors Conservative Lawyer Practicals Casting Asian

Author:B. D. Wong

“It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.”

World Parent Interesting Deals Elements Conservative Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?”

World Doe Care Social Parent Development Evolution Genes Marvelous Robots Infant Precision Social Development Newborn Neurons Wiring

Author:E. O. Wilson

“In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.”

People Ifs World Want Needs Children Ideas Facts Would Be Felt Parent Wonderful Resources Tolerance Shrinking

Author:Erica Jong

“Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.”

World Way Mean Parent Share Becoming Adults Leaving Starting Peers Becoming An Adult

Book:The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

Source: The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children

“International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same time, it solves a problem for a few. I think it can be a brilliant solution to the problem of adults wanting a child in their lives or wanting more children in their lives and the problem of children who want parents in their lives.”

Thinking World Want Children Doe Problem Parent Answers Solutions Adults International Solve Brilliant Adoption Wanting More

Author:Melissa Fay Greene

“My parents are proud of their Indian heritage, but they came halfway across the world so their children could be born here, raised here as Americans. They came legally, but they came here in search of the American dream, in search of freedom and opportunity.”

World Children Dream Opportunity Parent Born Proud Raised Indian Heritage American Dream Halfway

Author:Bobby Jindal

“I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.”

People World Trying Believe Parent Moral Red Crosses Vote Raised Obligation Save The World Being A Parent Moral Obligation Red Cross

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.”

People World Trying Parent Strange Better Place

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.”

Ifs World Firsts Littles Evil Parent Sin Hell Saved Pioneers Trifling Progeny

Author:James Howell

“Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.”

World Firsts Mean Long Has Beens Government Lasts Force Parent Views Mankind Policy Intention Endure Confusion Fraud Good Intentions Refined

Book:The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

Source: The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke

“Ours is the first society in history in which parents expect to learn from their children, rather than the other way around. Such a topsy-turvy situation has come about at least in part because, unlike the rest of the world, we are an immigrant society, and for immigrants the only hope is in the kids.”

World Way Firsts Children Kids Parent Situation Immigrants Topsy Turvy

Book:Talking woman

Source: Talking woman

“I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.”

Ifs World Children Said Book Turns Asks Parent Dark Cold Perfection Blame Green Expected Staring Thirty Sat They Said Shelves Hostility Leather Neat Resent

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.”

World Ends Kids Parent Talking Spending Coaches Supposed To Be More Time Belittle Coming To An End

Author:Ray Lewis

“Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.”

People World School Parent Teach Teacher Boards Classroom Principal Janitor Board Of Education

Author:Virginia Satir

“There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.”

World Should Children Parent Community Relation Interfere

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“We marry to grow up, to escape our parents and to inherit our share of the world, not knowing who we are and who we will become, so it is left to marriage to make it clear which ones of us are growing in the same directions and which are ships meant to have passed in the night.”

World Night Left Grows Parent Marriage Growing Up Knowing Clear Growing Share Ships Who We Are Not Knowing

Book:Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

Source: Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others

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