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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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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

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

Plato

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

Paul, Jean

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cosby, Bill

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

Talmud, The

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

Bush, Barbara

10.

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

11.

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

Henker, Dr.

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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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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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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 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.

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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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Don't set your wit against a child.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

Dryden, John

21.

You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

Proverb, English

22.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Aidoo, Ama Ata

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Spark, Muriel

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

31.

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

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

Proverb, Jewish

35.

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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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.

37.

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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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Sullivan, Anne

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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Toffler, Alvin

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Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

41.

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

Hendren, L. L.

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

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Johnson, Jeremy P.

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

48.

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

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

Clark, Frank A.