Parents Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Parents are people who bear children, bore teenagers, and board newlyweds.
anonymous
They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad. They may not mean to, but they do. And give you all the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.
Philip Larkin (1922-1986) British poet
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson (which is not necessary), hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
Thomas C. Haliburton (1796-1865) Canadian jurist and humorist
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child’s reason without destroying your own.
John Mason Brown (1900-1969) American essayist, critic
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) English author
How can I teach, how can I save, This child whose features are my own, Whose feet run down the ways where I have walked?
Michael Roberts (1902-1948) British author
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
How selfhood begins with a walking away, And love is proved in the letting go.
C. Day Lewis (1902-1972) British poet
