Quotes About Helicopter Parents

#1. Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.

William Wordsworth

#2. We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were allowed to run free.' When I talk to my friends, we are all fascinated by what we are doing, but we can't seem to stop ourselves.

Liane Moriarty

#3. They too entered the world of dreams- that world in which a third of each man's life is spent, and which is thought by some pessimists to be a premonition of eternity.

E. M. Forster

#4. In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

Nancy Gibbs

#5. We must pose the familiar question about how far our civil liberties have been eroded by the national security state ... Somehow it is always a choice between habeas corpus and hundreds of corpses.

Niall Ferguson

#6. The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life.

Heather Choate Davis

#7. I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.

Ken Buck

#8. I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

Nick Zinner

#9. Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#10. I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious than any other natural resource a country can have.

Danny Kaye

#11. There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.

Cameron Bright

#12. Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

Keshia Chante

#13. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

William Goldman

#14. Success is perceptible we can touch it,smell it and taste it.

Mohammed Sekouty

#15. I sing the songs that people need to hear.

Etta James

#16. The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6

Seneca.

#17. I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

Charles King