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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
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Frank A. Clark
Frank A. Clark books
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A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisher books
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Children need guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
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Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan books
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Don't set your wit against a child.
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Jonathan Swift
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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Lewis Mumford
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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
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Michael Levine
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He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. [Exodus 21:17]
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Bible
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How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
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Robert Cecil Day-Lewis
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I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
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Arthur Rimbaud
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
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Bette Davis
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If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
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Jessamyn West
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If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.
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Source Unknown
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In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
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Don Marquis
Don Marquis books
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
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Ama Ata Aidoo
Ama Ata Aidoo books
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
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Plato
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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Malcolm S. Forbes
Malcolm S. Forbes books
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Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. books
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Love well, whip well.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin books
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
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American Proverb
American Proverb books
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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
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Gloria Steinem
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Quentin Crisp
Quentin Crisp books
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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
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Mark Twain
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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Miguel De Cervantes
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Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
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Alvin Toffler
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Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
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Bill Cosby
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Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
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Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov books
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Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
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Jeremy P. Johnson
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Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.
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William E. Rothschild
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Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
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Muriel Spark
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Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
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L. L. Hendren
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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Ogden Nash
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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John Locke
John Locke books
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Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.
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Dr. Henker
Dr. Henker books
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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow books
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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Francis Bacon
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
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Frank A. Clark
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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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Jean Paul
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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John Dryden
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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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Edward, Duke of Windsor
Edward, Duke of Windsor books
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The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.
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Source Unknown
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The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
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Joyce Maynard
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There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents.
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Leon R. Yankwich
Leon R. Yankwich books
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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Peter De Vries
Peter De Vries books
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To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
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Chinese Proverb
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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher books
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When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
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The Talmud
The Talmud books
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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard books
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
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Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush books
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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
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English Proverb
English Proverb books
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