Parents Quotes

Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not Communists.

… the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions…. Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.

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

The industrial revolution caused unspeakable misery both in England and in America … In the Lancashire cotton mills (from which Marx and Engels derived their livelihood), children worked from 12 to 16 hours a day; they often began working at the age of six or seven. Children had to be beaten to keep them from falling asleep while at work; in spite of this, many failed to keep awake and were mutilated or killed. Parents had to submit to the infliction of these atrocities upon their children, because they themselves were in a desperate plight. Craftsmen had been thrown out of work by the machines; rural labourers were compelled to migrate to the towns by the Enclosure Acts, which used Parliament to make landowners richer by making peasants destitute; trade unions were illegal until 1824; the government employed agents provocateurs to try to get revolutionary sentiments out of wage-earners, who were then deported or hanged. Such was the first effect of machinery in England.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in my life.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.

I think about my parents, and I think a lot about the sacrifices they have made.

I think of exercise as the father of the body and nutrition as the mother.

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.

My parents are retired, basically.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

My parents always told me to be respectful to anyone you meet and to live your life that way.

I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

Patriotism to your country is something that comes from your heart. It should be taught to you by your parents.

It's a very important part of my life: parents and church - and your surroundings.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

The work of the youth is a blanket for the old.

I am a family person. I thank my parents for their upbringing.