More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.
– Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Related Quotes:
- To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Our parents would not be -˜The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. – Herodotus
- It is very sad to see children live like orphans while their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gugu Mona
- Today’s troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don’t want their children to have parents – Agona Apell
- Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do. – Billy Graham
- It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gift Gugu Mona
- Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words -˜impossible’ and -˜improbable’ are synonyms. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad. – Friedrich Schiller
- Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please. – Shannon Celebi
- He’s turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he’s miserable and depressed. – David Frost
- … I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think – JD Salinger
- You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person). – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like. – Nick Hornby
- We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too. – Nick Hornby
- I’ve been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it. – Dean Koontz
- The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- You can’t be -œit- for everyone. In fact, if you try to please everyone, you will please no one, especially yourself. – Amber Hurdle
- Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents? – Ralph Webster
- Is there a magical age when children become parents to their parents? – Ralph Webster
- It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The fact that you have just buried your parent or parents and/or sibling or siblings does not make you less likely to die today. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The boring thing with ‘No sex before marriage’ is that kids will never get to attend their parents’ wedding. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The real proof that I have tried to love and that people have tried to love me back was never going to fit in a kitchen drawer. – Sloane Crosley
- We’re [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we’re just praying we won’t screw up too badly. – Jodi Picoult
- We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. – Jodi Picoult
- To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child. – E Stanley Jones
- Sex is an open secret parents try to hide to their children – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- … sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves. – Witi Ihimaera
- Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles. – Mary Lydon Simonsen
- Parents have no clue how many things they never teach their children. Their children are simply born with those things. – Kirtida Gautam
- You said, -˜Ramsey-¦oh Ramsey-¦please.’ Please, what?- She looked him straight in the eyes. -œPlease-¦let my people go! – Tessa Dawn
- But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. – Jon Krakauer
- I tried to be good to Judith, I tried to be kind and loving, but our hatred kept coming between us. – Robert Silverberg
- I tried to understand you… I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself… but I more likely become a victim on myself. – Deyth Banger
- Goldie hadn’t tried all three beds, she thought, but she’d certainly tried all three brothers. – Leigh Savage