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78 quotesThe first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Parents and Parenting
Clarence Darrow
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If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
Parents and Parenting
Bette Davis
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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Chance
Jacques Delille
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Self-love
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Education
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
Misfortunes
R. Buckminster Fuller
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The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.
Training
A. P. Gouthey
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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Respectability
Billy Graham
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Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
Parents and Parenting
L. L. Hendren
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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
Advertising
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Writers and Writing
Horace
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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Virtue
Horace
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Parents and Parenting
Elbert Hubbard
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Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
Parents and Parenting
Jeremy P. Johnson
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The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.
Family
Paul Johnson
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My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Heroes and Heroism
Michael Jordan
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
Letters
D. H. Lawrence
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The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
Children
Mel Lazarus
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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Parents and Parenting
Michael Levine
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Parents and Parenting
John Locke
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Parents and Parenting
Don Marquis
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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
Parents and Parenting
Joyce Maynard
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The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
Rock and Roll
Mitch Miller
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The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
Vision
Edward R. Murrow
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Children
Ogden Nash
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun