Morgan Freeman Quotes

I don't think it matters how many parents you've got, as long as those who are around make their presence a good one.

I think too often in our society parents, who may have good impulses, overreach and try to mold and shape and direct their child.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

A child identifies his parents with God, whether or not the adults want that role. Most children 'see' God the way they perceive their earthly fathers.

The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason that beliefs are transmitted so easily from parent to child.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

I think the best way it happens is if parents say, this is important for educating my child.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

Some children do what they’re told to do; some children do what they’re told not to do; all children do what they’re parents have done.

In all that we do in the Church, we need to provide the way, as leaders, for parents and children to have time together as families.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

Children are sensitive and receptive to the thoughts of others about them, and often outpicture the fears of their parents.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.