Young Parents Quotes:

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

- George Saunders

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Reading, Eye, Young Parents

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

- P. J. O'Rourke

source: P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Funny, Pregnancy, Young Parents, Parents Love

When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.

- Michael Hyatt

source: Michael Hyatt (2012). “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Teacher, Young Parents, People

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Children, Nice, Self Esteem, Spoiled Children, Overhearing

We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: "Royal Truths, etc".

topic: Love, Inspirational, Family, Great Parents, Losing A Parent

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Strength, Educational, Teaching, Individual Differences, Inspirational Diversity

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

- Aharon Appelfeld

topic: People, Parent, Young, Young Parents

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

- Taylor Hanson

source: "Hanson on Music, Fatherhood & the Importance of Arts Education Hanson on Music, Fatherhood & the Importance of Arts Education". Parenting.com Interview, www.parenting.com.

topic: Ideas, Wife, Parent, Being A Parent, Young Parents

Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young.

- Kim Wilde

topic: Dad, Thinking, Rocks, Young Parents

Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they take up arms against the industries which encourage it. Parents hide their eyes from the books and comics, slasher films, videos and lyrics which form the texture of an adolescent culture. While all successful societies have inhibited instinct, ours encourages it. Or at least we profess ourselves powerless to interfere with it.

- C. Sommerville

topic: Book, Eye, Successful, Ambivalence, Young Parents

My husband and I each had careers and two babies at home. They just demand everything from you. All the domestic duties fell to me and this resentment builds, as I think happens to a lot of young parents who have competing careers.

- Paula Broadwell

source: Source: www.vanityfair.com

topic: Baby, Husband, Home, Young Parents

Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from "Here Comes the Groom" or "Waterboy."

- Henry Winkler

source: Source: www.washingtontimes.com

topic: Young Parents

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

- Elizabeth Edwards

topic: Parent, Energy, Young, Young Parents