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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

If my parents aren't ignoring me, they're insulting me. I like being ignored better. — P.C. Cast

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

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are. — Nia Vardalos

This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach. — Groucho Marx

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

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

The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids' linguistic abilities become — John Medina

Remember that that "rude awakening" which your parents and well-meaning relatives threatened you with as a kid is better than no awakening at all. — Perry Brass