Quotes About Values

Being a parent is not an easy job, which is why we try to create cartoons parents know are safe for their kids.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.

As I've gotten older, I've come to grips that the unexamined life is what works for most people. Most take what they learned in school, get a job, marry, buy a house, have a family, become a great parent, serve their god, community and country, hang with friends, and live a good life. And for them that's great.

I don't advocate any child following in their parent's footsteps when their parent's footsteps are as crooked as mine are.

Mum and Dad had high expectations of us as human beings - it wasn't just about education. It's a fantastic way to go about parenting, and I aspire to that.

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.

My best parenting advice would be not to take the job too seriously. Teach your kids to be nice, and everything else falls into place.

People discuss parenting the way they talk about denominations of faith.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

I had a pretty well-adjusted style of parenting. I think my parents were very young, very open. I think I learned many things from them: etiquette and grace, compassion and charity. And who I am today is due to a lot of attributes of my parents.

My parents have left a legacy in our family of service to others.

I look at the car park and myself and Dave Watson come in with our old cars, and these young lads come in with their new Porches. I think that society has changed, there seems to be a lack of respect nowadays.

I don't want my kids to be raised thinking they'll get into a park and people applaud.

Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, which would be a blessing, but that blessing is not a reason to move from artificial brain enhancement to artificial intimacy.

I would encourage anyone who shares our liberal values in or outside parliament to join our party and join our liberal movement. Our door is absolutely open.

British democratic values are embedded in the primacy of parliament.

I started work at 13, had three or four part-time jobs, and learnt very quickly the values of work.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

Kentucky isn't particularly religious.

Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly strong.

Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.