Quotes About Parents Approval

#1. I give up. In the war for my parents' approval, I'd lost to a complete stranger.

Cora Carmack

#2. Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#3. Women didn't go to school when they were young because parents preferred to send their brothers. The women couldn't access loans in their own right because the banks sought the approval of a male dependent.

Joyce Banda

#4. I'm still craving approval from my parents. It took a lot of success for me to realize it was never coming. It's just not in their nature.

Andrew Stanton

#5. I want you, bunny, and I'll have you. This will be the last night you cry alone.

Anonymous

#6. Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

Phil Donahue

#7. Copy everything you see on television, from hair styles to the clothes and don't think too often, just do exactly how you were told, how your parents told you, and you will make your own personality that is you.

Auliq Ice

#8. It was hard not to realize what kind of kid his parents wished they'd had, and when he thought about that kind of kid it was tempting for Paul to want to track, hunt, and eat the little thing.

Ben Marcus

#9. The parents sat round watching, and in their crass faces - faces not harsh or evil, only blunted by ignorance and mean virtues - you could see a solemn approval, a solemn pleasure in the spectacle of sin rebuked.

George Orwell

#10. He asked questions, he was interested and interesting, he rarely spoke of himself. He had a calm voice for the worst accidents and emergencies.

Zadie Smith

#11. Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.

Harley King

#12. I know it sounds really weedy, but we are all children who seek approval from our parents.

Gurinder Chadha

#13. The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of winning friends.

B.F. Skinner

#14. Many parents make the mistake of giving love and approval to their children only when their children do something that they want them to do.

Brian Tracy

#15. Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing to do, sort of like reinventing the wheel and extolling its virtues. Had parents' intuition sunk so low that some strange man had to tell modern women that it was okay to sleep with their babies?

William Sears

#16. The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

Woodrow Wilson

#17. A tragedy like this, we all blame ourselves.

Max Barry

#18. The Christmas spirit will elude you
'til a selfless love consumes you
and the joy of giving moves you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#19. A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country

Michael Pollan

#20. My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.

Siri Hustvedt

#21. Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Caroline Knapp

#22. Children now expect their parents to audition for approval.

Mason Cooley

#23. When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.

Frederick Lenz