Marlene Dietrich Quotes

I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled.

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

When parents have invested enormous amounts of money in their kids' education, to find their kids coming back to live with them - well, that was not what they bargained for.

When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

… women owe, first of all, a duty to their families. If they can so arrange their lives as to add an eight-hour job in a factory, then they should, and we should take our hats off to them.

I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you.

My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.

My dad left when I was young. I didn't have a dad. I'm part of that divorced generation and didn't want to do that to my kids, so I took a year off and became a full-time dad, changed diapers and all that while my wife worked.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

I don't think I made many sacrifices myself, but my parents have.

During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.

Fatherhood, to me, isn't something you do for awards or acclaim. It's a privilege and a huge responsibility

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

But sons are a different matter to a man. More a duty than an indulgence.

Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances would be drastic enough for presenting the voucher. Obviously there is no repayment that would be sufficient . . . but the effort to call in the debt of life is too outrageous to be treated as anything other than a joke.