Parents Quotes

Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.

If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.

Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three—just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.

It’s helpful to imagine your relationship with him or her as a business relationship rather than a personal one. Just as you wouldn’t share that you’re feeling fat, ugly, and depressed with a client or tell her that you’ve just met the love of your life and you’ve never been happier, these thoughts and feelings should be kept to yourself and not shared with your ex. Finally, as in any good business relationship, be honest and prepared to deliver what you promise.

Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.

The point is that no matter what your feelings are, your children will be better off if you make them your central focus and work diligently at keeping the parenting relationship civil and cooperative.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.