Quotes about Parents

The founding fathers... provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

While parents are responsible for the stamp of character, as well as for the education and training, of their sons and daughters, it is still true that our position and usefulness in the world depend, to a great degree, upon our own course of action.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure. I was free to follow my instincts, enjoy my life, and love my parents as much as they loved me.

Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other.

Since crime often grows out of a sense of futility and despair, Negro parents must be urged to give their children the love, attention, and sense of belonging that a segregated society deprives them of.

To those whose eyes may fall on these lines, may I not be excused saying, 'See to it that you honour your father and your mother, not only that your days may be long in the land, but that you may not, in after years, be disturbed by useless longings to have back again the precious ones who so ceaselessly and unselfishly toiled with heart and brain for your profoundest well-being.

The cost of caring for the "incurables" was prohibitive. They must "give their lives" for the greater cause just as everyone else, and just as the parents of soldiers must "make the ultimate sacrifice".

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders. So many people, so many, many people. So sad.