Strict Parenting Quotes & Sayings

I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrary tyranny that gets them mixed up. — Ken Follett

If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately. — Thom Yorke

I used to try and forget, now I desperately try to remember.
I used to control my thoughts, now they control me.
I used to fear death, now I fear life. — Lynn Marie Smith

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

Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white. — Darryl Pinckney

Dad was a strict disciplinarian and would give us a wallop with a wooden spoon if we were out of order. But we really respected him - he didn't try to be our best friend. — Stephen Mangan

You want to show me your dick?" "If it'll help convince you. — Kendall Ryan

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments. — Amy Chua

Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks. — Anthony De Mello

I'm going to ask you a question," I said. "And I want an answer this time, no dodging and no playing cryptic. Is the reason you're leaving because you need to look for Nicholas, or because you want to get away from me?"
Daniel looked me square in the eye, unblinking. "The first thing accomplishes the second, now doesn't it? — Angela B. Wade

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure. — Christopher Dodd

There are laws for peace as well as war. — Livy

Granuaile:"So why don't cult leaders achieve godhood?"
Atticus:" Because they're megalomaniacs drenched in douche juice. — Kevin Hearne

The only right you have with anyone in life is to the right to walk away. — James S.A. Corey

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives — Jane Campion

I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time. — Amanda Palmer

Certainly, child rearing requires many different interventions. There are times for helping, for not getting involved, or for being strict, But the real issue is this: Is what you are going being done on purpose? Or are you doing it from reasons that you do not think about, such as your own personality, childhood, need of the moment, or fears? — Henry Cloud

In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children. — Richard Louv

The rewards of virtue alone abide secure. — Sophocles

Mothers and fathers must be gentle at least some of the time. Mothers and fathers must also be strict at least some of the time. Most of the time, though, most mothers and fathers must be mostly strict and gentle together. — Connie Kerbs

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself. — Jim Crace

Complete garbage. It's like Garden State, but in outer space. — Zach Braff