Wise Parents Quotes

#1. My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

Keira Knightley

#2. Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

Leonard Roy Frank

#3. The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

E.M. Delafield

#4. Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later.

Jim Fay

#5. Wise parents do not criticize each other in front of their children or their friends. Nor do they talk negatively about their children when others are present. That is disloyalty.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#6. Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

Haim Ginott

#7. I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.

Naomi Scott

#8. In an hundred elles of contention, there is not an inch of love.

George Herbert

#9. No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

William Hazlitt

#10. It's a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

Jeb Bush

#11. My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.

Dakota Johnson

#12. Love is who we are without our stories.

Byron Katie

#13. It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Samuel Butler

#14. We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we may sometimes be wise to ignore.

Warren Eyster

#15. My parents called me their wise little baby. I was mature when I was 4 or 5. My brother and sister were older, so I was raised by four adults.

Annabeth Gish

#16. In creative endeavors luck is a skill.

Twyla Tharp

#17. Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

John Podesta

#18. With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.

Catherine Fisher

#19. When I wrote 'Runaways,' I was a naive kid who thought that all parents were evil. Now that I'm a wise old man with children of my own, I am certain that all parents are evil.

Brian K. Vaughan

#20. Parents don't become inaccessible to your Children, when they don't get the right information from you, they may get the wrong one from an outsider; you are their Caretaker..be wise!

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#21. The wise parent lets the child's world teach him the lessons of life and then empathizes with his pain. Then he learns to respect the outside world's limits as well as his parents

Henry Cloud

#22. In the end, it's not what you do for your children but what you've taught them to do for themselves.

Ann Landers

#23. He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.

Alice Cooper

#24. I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Greg Wise

#25. 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

#26. I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

Ludacris

#27. My parents inspire me every day. They are both incredible people that I love and look up to every day. Industry wise, I love what Justin Timberlake has done with his career. He's truly an idol to me, not only as a performer, but as a person as well.

Max Schneider

#28. What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.

Abigail Adams

#29. You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated.

Tom Preston-Werner

#30. My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.

David Harewood

#31. I am still young to keep learning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#32. People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

Mike Rowe

#33. All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

James E. Faust

#34. And my parents don't want me to tell my grandmother - who, let's be honest, is already in the bottom of the ninth inning, age-wise - that

Robin Benway

#35. A wise friend told me that we all could use more than one set of parents - our relations with the original set are too intense, and need dissipating.

Alice Adams

#36. find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. If you study the

Robin S. Sharma

#37. I would not have understood that the best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming, nor that the majesty and the magic of belief and dreams could be a vital part of life and of writing.

Neil Gaiman

#38. Tyrion felt a pang of rage. "You fucking son of a pox-ridden ass," he spat. "I hope you die of a bloody flux.

George R R Martin

#39. God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

Vance Havner