Parents Obedience Quotes

#1. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

Jamaica Kincaid

#2. Chua champions filial obedience, but the father she reveres rebelled against his own parents, and she rebelled against him in turn: he by leaving China for the United States, she by leaving California for the East Coast. (Both, it seems, were trying to get as far away as possible.)

William Deresiewicz

#3. Like Abraham, parents should command their households after them. Let obedience to [143] parental authority be taught and enforced as the first step in obedience to the authority of God.

Ellen G. White

#4. The work is going well, but it looks like it might be the end of the world.)

Elizabeth Kolbert

#5. Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Jose Marti

#6. Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. I thought you said you didn't want this to happen," she whispered, still dizzy from his kiss. "That there was too much at stake."
"You're a hard woman to resist, Yasmin Katsalos...

Barbara DeLeo

#8. To enjoy the beauty of life, live in the moment, not in the past or future.

Debasish Mridha

#9. The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Joseph Addison

#10. I'm much better at saying something on the answering machine than texting.

Igor Levit

#11. My wife and kids are the constituents I will be serving long after my days in Springfield are a distant memory.

Peter Roskam

#12. My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

Jeremy Camp

#13. Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

Philip Yancey

#14. Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Thomas Mann

#15. Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

S.R. Ford

#16. Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride
never a dull moment!

Gregory Chaitin

#17. I love to eat sushi, and, you know, those flavors and wasabi and really eating spoonfuls of it ... I would just mix it and put it on everything, literally.

David Chang

#18. Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Daisy Fuentes

#19. Six wasn't sure religion was any more than a lot of people caught up in a collective delirium that disappeared the minute they stepped out of the church doors and onto the street.

Ayana Mathis

#20. For centuries kings, priests, feudal lords, industrial bosses and parents have insisted that obedience is a virtue and that disobedience is a vice.

Erich Fromm

#21. The irony of this is that while believers and non-believers are on opposite sides where religious ideas are concerned they may also find themselves on the same side in the struggle for freedom of belief.

Brian Whitaker

#22. It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.

Uta Hagen

#23. Be, like Proust, a fanatic of time.

Guillermo Arango

#24. Original sin is my only refuge, I was born bad and I never have recovered

Alice James

#25. The reasonableness of the command to obey parents is clear to children, even when quite young.

Noah Webster