Bill O'Reilly Quotes

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

As a parent, when I fail to listen to my kids, when our kids stop bringing us our problems, we have all failed as parents and as leaders.

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Different parents have different standards for their children.

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

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

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.