Helena Rubinstein Quotes

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

The No. 1 thing that I care about is the fact that I did my job by the children because that has a legacy that will far outlive me. Because it won't only be them, it will be how they impact their children and the next generation.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.

With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over a period of many years. This is why your parents started to get so stupid just at the time in your life when you were getting really smart.

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children.

When the child sees the parent looking for something, it is as natural for it also to look for the object and to give it over when it finds it, as it was, under other circumstances, to receive it. Multiply such an instance by the thousand details of daily intercourse, and one has a picture of the most permanent and enduring method of giving direction to the activities of the young.

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.

If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

They [parents] can resist the impulse to "prove" their love by showering children with things they do not need and give them precisous time and attention instead.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

I'm the Cool One," she told herself. "Somebody give me some tequila because I'll totally drink it. And there's no way you're going to find me later having a panic attack in your parents' bathroom. Who wants to French-kiss?

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

Parents always know what strings control your heart and soul. After all, they are the ones who tied them there.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

Of course parents want their children to confide in them.