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Parents and parenting

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

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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

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

Spark, Muriel

There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.

Yankwich, Leon R.

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

Plato

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mumford, Lewis

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.

Priestley, J. B.

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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Windsor, Edward, Duke of

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble.

Mcginley, Phyllis

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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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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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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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From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Bible

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Love well, whip well.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dryden, John

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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bush, Barbara

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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

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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

Macneil, Robert

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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.

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Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Darrow, Clarence

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The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

Lennon, John

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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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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

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You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Frost, Robert

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

West, Jessamyn

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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Levine, Michael

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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

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Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.

Koop, C. Everett

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

Bacon, Francis

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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.

Cosby, Bill

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

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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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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