Parental Relationship Quotes & Sayings

Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic and damaging to the kids and their relationship with you when they find out the truth. — Seymour Papert

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We're rerunning the relationship they were in together and we're rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover. — Kenny Loggins

I believe that parents who love their children do everything for them with love, even discipline. — Ellen J. Barrier

The truth about forever is that it is happening right now — Sarah Dessen

By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship, it is not readily given up even after the abuse has stopped; rather, it becomes a stable part of the child's personality structure. — Judith Lewis Herman

Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous. — Lloyd DeMause

If you were sexually abused & could not go to your family for support, you deserve to realize that your family failed you fundamentally. Your parents did not provide a safe atmosphere of support & protection for their children, which is a parent's first responsibility. It was not your fault. — Patti Feuereisen

We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron. — Conn Iggulden

The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. — Rick Riordan

Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating. — Iain Duncan Smith

If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding. — Dalai Lama XIV

There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters. — David Nicholls

When friends tell you how awesome you look, drop the "I still have more to go" crap. You worked hard and you deserve the compliment! — Jillian Michaels

In medieval India, the Hindu Vaishnava system of bhakti-yoga (devotional yoga) developed highly sophisticated categories of relation (rasa) to God, including santa (awe and reverence), vatsalya (parental attitude toward God), dasya (servant of God), sakhya (being friends and playmates with God), and madburya (passionate, romantic love). — Siobhan Houston

Growth of the soil was something different, a thing to be procured at any cost; the only source, the origin of all. A dull and desolate existence? Nay, least of all. A man had everything; his powers above, his dreams, his loves, his wealth of superstition. — Knut Hamsun

Technology is an extension of our hands and our feet, not our spirit. — Costa-Gavras

I have the body of an 18-year-old, but it's in the trunk of my car and it's starting to smell. — Kimberly Cheryl

It's only when life is broken and shattered into tiny pieces when you understand that love prevented you from falling apart. — P.J. Bayliss

The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man's redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation. — Robert Boyle

The parental relationship sits outside the
the logic of meritocracy and is the closest humans come to grace. — David Brooks

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world. — Al-Ghazali