Parenting Quotes

They say when a parent dies, a child feels his own mortality. But when a child dies, it’s immortality that a parent loses.

We are not husband and wife, anymore. We’re just business partners. And our job is to raise those kids.[to Wendy]

Well, I don’t know who’s been raising you, but I’m gonna get you some new crayons because it looks like he’s shooting cabbages.[to Will]

My baby girl. You are wrong. We don’t live in different worlds. You and your brother are the only world that I have lived in since the day you were born. My children, I’m as blind as anyone. But I see you both. I will never stop seeing you.

A kid needs at least one person who never gives up on them, no matter what.[to Meng]

That’s parenting. It’s like one constant slap around the head.

Sometimes kids got to show their parents the way.

Parents do not have needs. You ever read the book The Giving Tree? It’s about a tree, and this kid keeps coming and taking stuff from it his whole life, until there’s nothing left but a stump. And then the kid sits on the stump. That’s being a parent.

Listen, children. I know that the loss of your parents was a great tragedy, but you can still have the life they wanted for you.

Your children, bless their mischievous souls, they like to get involved. This way, what? They play too much Nintendo, eat too much junk food, smoke some ganja, pound some beers, experiment sexually. I mean, really, what’s the worst that can happen?[to Joyce]

You don’t just walk away from your parents.

It’s the 90s. Parents are supposed to discuss sex with their children.[Meadow Soprano]Yeah, but that’s where you’re wrong. You see, out there, it’s the 1990s, but in this house, it’s 1954. 1990s. 1954. So now and forever, I don’t want to hear any more sex talk, okay?[Tony Soprano]