Parental Harmony Quotes

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children.

I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.

I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

Children do best when their parents live together in stable relationships, when two incomes can be a catalyst for opportunity.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.

A lot of the songs in 'See Jane Sing!' are pulled straight from the kitchen table and my parents harmonizing together.

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.