Quotes About Your Parents Not Understanding You

#1. Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.

Shefali Tsabary

#2. Compare with me, ye women, if you can

Anne Bradstreet

#3. I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

David Small

#4. My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

Sebastian Faulks

#5. You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

Gail Devers

#6. I was raised in church by Christian parents and I was baptized when I was 11 years old. But I didn't really have a good understanding of what the Gospel was really all about until college.

Lance Berkman

#7. Thankfully, I was given a strong base by my parents, an understanding of who I was and my strength.

Kimberly Elise

#8. We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.

James E. Faust

#9. I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

Dwyane Wade

#10. My journey started with the understanding that poor parents share the universal desire for education for their children. No family in our experience has ever turned down educational support for their daughter.

Ann Cotton

#11. If I choose to dine with publicans and sinners, that is my business. But I do not choose to break bread with Pharisees.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. Because the perpetrators typically have little understanding as to why they are sexually assaulting children, they usually are unable to stop after the first assault. Abusive behavior continues until a crisis of some kind prevents further abuse.

Tony Martens

#13. But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents' generation seems neither able nor interested in understanding how marketers exploit them. They take shopping at face value.

Douglas Coupland

#14. My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

James Cronin

#15. We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.

Dinaw Mengestu

#17. Here is the beginning of understanding: most parents are doing their best, and most children are doing their best, and they're doing pretty well, all things considered.

Richard Louv

#18. I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

Maajid Nawaz

#19. You like them," I realized.
Noah's eyebrows lifted in question.
"Like as people."
"As opposed to ... furniture?"
"They're my PARENTS."
"That is my understanding, yes.

Michelle Hodkin

#20. What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.

Richard L. Evans

#21. I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.

Allison Williams

#22. When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

Alden Ehrenreich

#23. However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

Vera Brittain

#24. I have a great support team. I have very understanding parents that do not put too much pressure on me, and I have close friends that I lean on for support.

Olivia Stuck

#25. I want to be happy because it is beneficial for me but also because I want to be a messenger of happiness to my friends and family.

Susan Harris

#26. She's got a smile that heals me.

Billy Joel

#27. Let us ask our suppliers to come and help us to solve our problems.

W. Edwards Deming

#28. Her father had admired her mother without ever truly understanding her. And her mother--her mother had relied on her father without appreciating him. There had been a gulf between them that couldn't be bridged by all the goodwill in the world.

Beatriz Williams

#29. Some are called to be gardeners of souls, and she'd tended hers with the blind dedication that accepted the floods and famine along with the sunshine.

Karen White

#30. Every future we imagine is transformed inexorably into a part of our children's understanding of their past, of the assumptions their parents and grandparents could not help but make.
The Killer Hook

Michael Chabon

#31. As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

Gregory Hines

#32. I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

Linda Grant

#33. I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

Emma Stone

#34. An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

Maeve Binchy

#35. Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.

Jed Diamond

#36. The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country - everybody is in a hurry to impose a certain religion on the child. How foolish! How stupid! Religion needs maturity, great understanding, before one can choose.

Rajneesh

#37. If everyone thinks you're bizarre and creepy, then you play bad guys. If everyone thinks you're beautiful and wants to kiss you, then you play the lead role.

Matt Ross

#38. My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley.

Alissa Nutting

#39. Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary.

Robert Goolrick

#40. Because that's what parents do, without even thinking about it, that's what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when they're adults no one can extinguish them. They'll burn so bright they can't be brought down.

Kim Holden