Quotes About Parents Know Best

#1. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Mom's a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were dramatizing. I'll never forget, they did an episode on sickle cell anemia, which as far as I know, is almost exclusively an African-American affliction.

Kathy Griffin

#3. I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time, I don't really know when that era was. I could watch Dana Carvey with my parents, they loved him too. They loved all his characters.

Mindy Kaling

#4. It's so odd, isn't it? That know we are all going to die, & that we have these difficult passages to go through with our parents & friends, & other people we love & care about who are also going to die, & yet it's almost as if we are never really ready.

Kris Radish

#5. Make your church a context where parents know that the right response to their teenagers is never to reject them as human beings, never to throw them out.

David P. Gushee

#6. Anything is possible with a parent. Parents are gods. They make us and they destroy us. They warp the world and remake it in their own shape, and that's the world we know forever after. It's the only world. We can't see what it might have looked like otherwise.

David Vann

#7. Ms. Moore, I want you to find my grandparents. This is important to me. I want to meet them and learn more about my heritage. I would like to know what my parents were like.

Linda Weaver Clarke

#8. It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

Elizabeth Edwards

#9. It's them as should be sorry! I knew yeh weren't gettin' yer letters but I never thought yeh wouldn't even know abou' Hogwarts, fer cryin' out loud! Did yeh never wonder where yer parents learned it all?" "All what?" asked Harry. "ALL WHAT?" Hagrid thundered. "Now wait jus' one second!

J.K. Rowling

#10. Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

John Walters

#11. My parents are very competitive, so we are very competitive as kids. But it's a good kind of competition; it's not a jealousy. You always want to do your best, and if it can't be you, you want it to be your brother or your sister, you know what I mean?

Janet Jackson

#12. for behold, I know that if ye are brought up in the way ye should go ye will not depart from it. 6 Wherefore, if ye are cursed, behold, I leave my blessing upon you, that the cursing may be taken from you and be answered upon the heads of your parents.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#13. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.

Danielle Steel

#14. I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents ... I live beside him, and know his worries, his hopes, and his dreams for his nation. We believe that things happen by design, not in an arbitrary way. And we believe it is our duty to make things happen.

Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned

#15. You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.

Mary E. Pearson

#16. Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters and deniers telling us our child must have never even had autism or that the recovery was simply nature's course. We all know better, and frankly we're too busy helping other parents to really care.

Jenny McCarthy

#17. My parents are more likely to know who Franz Liszt is than Snooki.

Charlie Day

#18. I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Michelle Williams

#19. There are four people in my life, not counting my reps who know everything, two of whom are my parents, that know everything, so that when I feel like I need to let it out, I can talk to any of those four people.

Natalie Zea

#20. I am not asking anyone to take the fun out of childhood. As we all know, treats are one of the best parts of being a kid. Instead, the goal here is to empower parents instead of undermining them as they try to make healthier choices for their families.

Michelle Obama

#21. Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

Michael Morpurgo

#22. As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Michelle Obama

#23. I've heard parents say all they want is "the best" for their children, but the best is subjective and anchored by how they know and learned the world.

Janet Mock

#24. I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

Missy Peregrym

#25. We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

#26. Parents almost always want what's best for their children. They just don't always know what that is.

Jeanne Birdsall

#27. Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the brother and sister you know best. They may not be the ones you like the best. They may not be the most interesting, but they are the closest and probably the clearest to you.

James Salter

#28. The parents in the room know that texting is actually the best way to communicate with your kids. It might be the only way to communicate with your kids.

Nancy Lublin

#29. Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Marian Wright Edelman

#30. Parents do tend to judge each other. I don't know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we're doing? And I guess that can sometimes lead to conflict.

Liane Moriarty

#31. What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.

Chanda Kochhar

#32. You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

Kaitlin Olson

#33. I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

Selena

#34. Many parents make mistakes with their children, thinking they know what's best for them.

Paulo Coelho

#35. It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll distract you with some ice cream or something. And I don't know if that's always the best thing. But it's certainly - you understand why people do it.

Pete Docter

#36. I hadn't been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

John Green

#37. Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.

Ezra Taft Benson

#38. But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.

Mark Kennedy

#39. I think parents generally know what's best for their children. But I suppose it's possible to be overprotective.

Chris Van Allsburg

#40. I know this is insane, but I somehow wish I had been in Auschwitz with my parents so I could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

Art Spiegelman

#41. My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little browner than the other one. That's who I am. I feel sorry that it's taken so long for the film industry to figure it out and to catch up.

Gina Torres

#42. Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

Dave Eggers

#43. If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.

Henry Rollins

#44. And despite being seventeen - Hattori Mariko knew her place in life. She would marry Minamoto Raiden. Her parents would have the prestige of a daughter in the Heian Castle. And Mariko would be the only one to know the stain on that honor.

Renee Ahdieh

#45. Parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents
we didn't rear them
and yet we do.

Peg Bracken

#46. When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

Kangana Ranaut

#47. You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.

Emily Rios

#48. Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if you know yourself - especially in art, because whenever you do something new, everyone will be against you.

Yoshitaka Amano

#49. I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

Erika Slezak

#50. When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.

Brooklyn Sudano

#51. The Voice
There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you
just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

Shel Silverstein

#52. There was something I wanted, something I envisioned, loving parents, a happy home with everyone smiling at me. A home that no one would ever want to leave, a warm place , a warm person. It exists, I know it does

Natsuki Takaya

#53. Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker

#54. I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.

Erykah Badu

#55. You know how everyone - there's this maxim that we all become our mother or we all become our parents. And, generally, I really wouldn't mind becoming my mother. I really like her, so I wouldn't mind becoming her. But I definitely need to edit her.

Sarah Koenig

#56. I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

Kenneth Logan

#57. I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly low flame.

Laurie Graham

#58. I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.

Jessica Ennis

#59. Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, "Never take candy from strangers." And then they dressed me up and said, "Go beg for it." I didn't know what to do! I'd knock on people's doors and go, "Trick or treat." "No thank you."

Rita Rudner

#60. So how do you know Vampires aren't just some legend made up to scare little kids into minding their parents?"
Adam's voice was full of scorn. "Because you and I exist and we're descendants of Fate and Time.

April White

#61. I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

Amy Klobuchar

#62. When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see.

Sarah Parcak

#63. I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'

Nicole Richie

#64. You're wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fairy-tales every night from existing books to kids who, funnily enough...'
'... exist, yeah, I know. I mean it's fantasy, not reality.

Jonathan Dunne

#65. I know gay parents, and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#66. Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Mark Twain

#67. I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#68. Of course, even though Peter and I have had our disagreements, we share a bond I'd defend to the death if needs be. If all goes according to the natural order of things, siblings will know us longer than our parents, longer than our spouses and friends. Lord Westdale to Duncan

Kieran Kramer

#69. The best parents aren't the ones who know everything. They're the ones who are willing to learn.

Noah Kempler

#70. The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or
in my case
remember to say good-bye to them at all.

Lauren Oliver

#71. I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't give up on them. I let them know it matters to me that you come to class, it matters to me that you try, it matters to me when you succeed.

Erin Gruwell

#72. I was very lucky in that my parents were very broad-minded. Because they had come from another country and hadn't been able to fulfill their dreams, they wanted me to be more of myself, if you know what I mean.

Anne-Marie Duff

#73. Alec's trying to get Magnus to take him seriously, but he's never told our parents about Magnus, or even that he likes, you know -" "Warlocks ?" Simon said.

Cassandra Clare

#74. My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

Matt Berninger

#75. She wants you to be a god," I told him.
"I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.

Madeline Miller

#76. Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

Aimee Bender