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Parents and parenting

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

- Plato

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.

Paul, Jean

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Morrison, Jim

The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

West, Jessamyn

To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

French, Marilyn

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Spark, Muriel

Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Levine, Michael

10.

No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.

Williams, Shirley

11.

Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

Cosby, Bill

12.

Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.

Proverb, American

15.

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.

Bloom, Allan

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Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.

Henker, Dr.

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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Rimbaud, Arthur

18.

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

19.

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

Talmud, The

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

22.

You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.

Bush, Barbara

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Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Powell, Anthony

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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

Beckett, Samuel

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How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.

Day-Lewis, Robert Cecil

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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.

Rothschild, William E.

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There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

Gardner, Robert

29.

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Schumpeter, Joseph A.

30.

How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!

Goodrich, Samuel G.

31.

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Aidoo, Ama Ata

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?

Jennings, Elizabeth

34.

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.

Proverb, Jewish

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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Bacon, Francis

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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

Marquis, Don

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I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.

Bishop, Russell

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Mumford, Lewis

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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.

Hill, Grant

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He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]

Bible

43.

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Dryden, John

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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Clark, Frank A.

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Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.

Hendren, L. L.

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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

Maynard, Joyce

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If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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