MOM AND DAD TOP QUOTES
1. No
one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a
place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good."
- Eddie Murray
2. "When
mom and dad went to war, the only prisoners they took were the children."
- Pat Conroy
3. "You
don`t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of
you." - Meryl Streep
4. "Parents
don`t make mistakes because they don`t care, but because they care so
deeply." - T. Berry Brazelton
5. "Your
captain is your mother and father. He will tell you when to eat and when to
sleep. Listen to him. Make happy. And we will all see the land we are going
to." - Mau Piailug
6. "Parents
often talk about the younger generation as if they didn`t have anything to do
with it." - Haim Ginott
7. "My
mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of
unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less
about what we would do." - Mitt Romney
8. "Fathers
and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for
their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are
all that they can imagine." - Allan Bloom
9. "It
is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is
beauty and there is strength." - Maya Angelou
10 "My
mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it." -
Quentin Crisp
11. "Parents
can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming
of a person`s character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank
12. "Parents
are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots." - Jeremy P. Johnson
13. "Parents,
they`re strict on you when you`re little, and you don`t understand why. But as
you get older, you understand and you appreciate it." - Grant Hill
14. "The
most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along
without them." - Frank A. Clark
15. "Parents
are the last people on earth who ought to have children." - Samuel Butler
16. "To
be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own
needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of
this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn
to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself." -
James E. Faust
17. "Parents
are people who yell and they yell and they yell and they yell. And you already
have the point... and they`re still yelling." - Bill Cosby
18. "Parents
were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."
- Ogden Nash
19. "Parents
forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled
in them." - Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
20. "Parents
can plant magic in a child`s mind through certain words spoken with some
thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit." - Robert
Macneil
21. "Parents
are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don`t fulfill
the promise of their early years." - Anthony Powell
22. "To
all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just
be patient: even though it looks like you can`t do anything right for a number
of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20." - Marian
Wright Edelman
23. "Both
my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted
to make." - James Gandolfini.