Parents Quotes
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"You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James."
"The VoiceThere is a voice inside of youThat whispers all day long,"I feel this is right for me,I know that this is wrong."No teacher, preacher, parent, friendOr wise man can decideWhat's right for you--just listen toThe voice that speaks inside."
"You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for."
"Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?"
"If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it."
"You will never find the real truth among people that are insecure or have egos to protect. Truth over time becomes either guarded or twisted as their perspective changes; it changes with the seasons of their shame, love, hope or pride."
"I’m an only child, and therefore I gave birth to my parents, because if it weren’t for me, they wouldn’t even be parents."
"It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will."
"When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?"
"Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making."
"As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles.She wasbuoyant by nature;she wanted to travel,go to the theater, go to museums.What he wantedwas to lie on the couchwith the Timesover his face,so that death, when it came,wouldn't seem a significant change."
"My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education."
"A dream is a seed.Vision plants it.Imagination nurtures growth.Opportunities create blooms.Thoughts become things!"
"Os homens têm experiência de séculos a mais que as mulheres em: malsentir, antever e precaver. Quando levadas ao mundo do trabalho "masculino", as mulheres aceleram seu desenvolvimento nessa mesma direção e, dessa forma, as crianças estão deixando de aprender a amar, ou, ao menos, se afeiçoar."
"Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime."
"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. way."
"To ParentsTeach your child what they should know if not, their friends will teach them with wrong information.They will suffer the consequences of not knowing which results to hard life, suffering and being bad people with no morlas in life."
"Children are no longer being parented, but are raised. Thats why they don't have morals, ethics,humanity and manners, because their parents neglected them. We now live in a society that doesnt care about right or wrong."
"The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.It’s for their own good."
"If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA."
Abhijit Naskar, Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
"Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo."
"Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their inability to do things as quickly as we’d like. It’s time to take joy in their quirks and their ticks. It’s time to take joy in their facial expressions and their mispronounced words. It’s time to take joy in everything that our kids are."
"My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy."
"Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?"
"Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you do when you push your son’s nose into his mishaps or make your daughter feel worthless because she bumped or spilled something? Do you have any idea how easy it is to make your child feel abject? It’s as simple as letting out the words, “why would you do that!?” or “how many times have I told you…"
"Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail."
"None of us has an obligation to accept the definitions of ‘respect’ and ‘gratitude’ our parents espoused, especially when those definitions can be used to guilt-trip us, or when they are being used for the purpose of forcing us to do certain things (as an extortion mechanism)."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"That’s not our role here, provide our parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings. Our role here is to contribute the best we can to the society. Use our talents and make sure we add the greatest value possible to other people’s lives."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"An approach, according to which children should fulfil their parents’ dreams/ do everything in order to make their parents happy/ provide their parents with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves - because they owe it to them for all those years in which their parents took care of them - is utterly selfish."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"Parents were good to us, gave us a lot, took care for us when we couldn’t have taken care for ourselves, wanted the best for us, continue to care about us and our future, but none of it is good enough a reason to fulfil their dreams/ do everything in order to make them happy/ provide them with a peace of mind, or whatever they want for themselves."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"We grow up in a belief system according to which children should always make their parents proud and happy (instead of making themselves proud and happy) - and that’s unfortunately the belief system in most cultures."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"People have a much greater chance of finding something they’ll enjoy doing and making those greatest contributions when they trust themselves and are free to make their own life choices (are not marionettes in the hands of their parents)."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"It’s a mistake to believe that they (parents) are responsible for their children’s best future. This responsibility is on their children, and that’s the message they should be conveying to their children on a daily basis."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"Pushing them (children) into a career that is “practical”/ “safe”/ prestigious/ well-paying doesn’t count as help. It’s how parents satisfy their own needs."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"You don’t need to provide your parents with a “success story” to share at gatherings."
Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
"A house is never small or empty, when filled with love."
"Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood."
"Later, you told me what your mother had said. How your father, the farmer, rose up slowly. You told me how your mother wailed on the other end of the phone, grieving her loss and complaining about the basketball of a goitre perched on her shoulder. She told you, your father walked onto the veranda and saw a chook floating ten feet above the ground. The chook didn’t flap a feather and just sat there brooding, swaying in the breeze."
"Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family."
"Offering care means being a companion, not a superior. It doesn’t matter whether the person we are caring for is experiencing cancer, the flu, dementia, or grief.If you are a doctor or surgeon, your expertise and knowledge comes from a superior position. But when our role is to be providers of care, we should be there as equals."
Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home
"Even though people experiencing dementia become unable to recount what has just happened, they still go through the experience—even without recall. The psychological present lasts about three seconds. We experience the present even when we have dementia. The emotional pain caused by callous treatment or unkind talk occurs during that period. The moods and actions of people with dementia are expressions of what they have experienced, whether they can still use language and recall, or not."
Judy Cornish, The Dementia Handbook: How to Provide Dementia Care at Home
"If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died and it dawns on you that when he went he took some of you with him."
Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
"Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully."
"Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them."
"Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent."
"One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers."
"Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience."
"Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood."
"Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon."
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