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Quotes About Parent

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.
~ Rosalind Wiseman
Jamie says we're the most dangerous species on the planet. Especially to each other. That's what happened on Earth and if we're not careful, it'll happen here. Jamie didn't figure that out for himself. He was telling me what he overheard Captain Skyler say about Councillor Layton, Marley's dad. Mom doesn't like the Councilor for a different reason. She thinks he's a bad parent.
~ David Gerrold
Twenty-five percent said they were experiencing more sibling conflict than before. This was usually in families when siblings were perceived to be unhelpful as a parent was dying, or where sibling relationships had been strained from the start.
~ Hope Edelman
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
~ Horace
The harshness of a teacher is better than the reputed softness of the parent.
~ Idries Shah
La aspereza de un maestro es mejor que la supuesta ternura de un padre.
~ Idries Shah
If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.
~ Neil Bush
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.
~ Amos Oz
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
~ Lisa See
realize that grieving is a process. It doesn't stop just because the family wants the parent or grandparent to get on with life.
~ Unknown
death of a parent, he wrote, "despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago.
~ Joan Didion
The death of a parent, despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and that may cut free memories and feelings that we had thought gone to ground long ago. We might, in that indeterminate period they call mourning, be in a submarine, silent on the ocean's bed, aware of the depth charges, now near and now far, buffeting us with recollections.
~ Joan Didion
If you want to love a parent you have to understand the incredible investment he or she has in you. If you are a parent, and you want to be loved, you have to deserve it.
~ Jodi Picoult
and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart.
~ Jodi Picoult
Being a single parent is twice the work, twice the stress and twice the tears but also twice the hugs, twice the love and twice the pride.
~ Unknown
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
~ Herbert Spencer
The death of a parent is expected, the death of a child is unexpected, and I expect everyone will die.
~ Unknown
I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.
~ Unknown
Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances; it is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind.
~ Voltaire
Father is Everyone's First Preceptor.Happy Father's Day!
~ Mohith Agadi
Or we can picture God as a caring parent with traits with love, generosity, and sensitivity- an infinite Being who personally interacts with and responds to creation. Accordingly, God considers prayers much as a wise parent might consider requests from a child.
~ Philip Yancey
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
~ Plato
Do you mean that the tyrant will dare to use violence against the people who fathered him, and raise his hand against them if they oppose him? So the tyrant is a parricide, and little comfort to his old parent.
~ Plato
Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
~ Plato