Better Parents Quotes
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For some people, the better route for finding like-minded parents is just to get out of your house with your baby and frequent baby-friendly places.
— Carolyn Hax
A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.
— Richard Yates
All parents all over the world want their children to lead a better life than themselves, but they need to believe that change is possible.
— Shukla Bose
Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs.
— Neneh Cherry
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
— Erma Bombeck
And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
— Jodi Picoult
The desideratum of the philosophy "better to have never been" is parents being charged with manslaughter for bringing children into the world
— Dean Cavanagh
At the greatest levels of affluence, and the deepest levels of poverty, parents share the same desire for their children to have a better future.
— Adam Braun
There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.
— Andre Gide
We will all be far better spouses, parents, and leaders as we take time to grow in prayer.
— Mike Bickle
Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?
— Paula Abdul
If parents instill a sense of civic-mindedness - and there is no better way to do that than by example - their children will probably follow.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
And what did you say?" "I said I think that all children do better with happy parents than married parents.
— Caroline Kepnes
We are all somebody's children, and when we're in pain, we regress, instinctively looking to our parents to make everything better.
— Lynn Coady
My parents were enthusiastic fans of 'Sammy's Hill.' But they think 'Sammy's House' is a better book.
— Kristin Gore
Parents are temporary custodians, keeping watch and offering love and trying to leave the child better than they found him.
— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?
— A. E. Hotchner
Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.
— Maya Lin
It had to be possible to do better than her parents, but she wasn't sure she would.
— Jonathan Franzen
I'm a member of the African diaspora: my parents left the Caribbean and came to London for a better life.
— Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
— Moby
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
— James Dyson
If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.
— Vincent Cassel
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
— Wendy Cope
What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention.
— Richard L. Evans
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
— Graham Norton
Grandparents are convinced they're better parents than their own kids, whose lives they've already fucked up.
— Garth Stein
Because they are ignorant and their parents are ignorant. Because they don't know any better." Pastel Orphans
— Gemma Liviero
My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
— Carol Moseley Braun
If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
— William Bennett
Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.
— Peter Lynch
For the first time in living memory, current generations of young people today are likely to be no better educated than their parents.
— Derek Bok
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
— Andrew Solomon
I can never understand why people seem to think that growing up with unhappy parents is better than growing up with a happy single parent.
— Sarah Morgan
Sometimes parents don't know their children, he thought. But sometimes a parent knows her child better than anyone else, and
— Henning Mankell
I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.
— John F. Kerry
My parents think I'm better under pressure.
— Tori Amos
It is very likely that workhouse children were better fed than their contemporaries living at home with poor parents. Of
— Lesley Hulonce
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.
— Arne Jacobsen
Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced.
— Judith Viorst
It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place - they aren't here with you, and that's wrong,
— Veronica Roth
My parents ... They died today ... They died for me. -Tris
They loved you ... To them there was no better way to show you. -Four — Veronica Roth
They loved you ... To them there was no better way to show you. -Four — Veronica Roth
Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.
— Les Wexner
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
— Barkhad Abdi
I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.
— Denis Leary
My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
— Holly Near
Parents do the best they can. But my parents are better grandparents than they were parents.
— Teri Hatcher