Quotes on Parents
Your mother gets mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day her mother was just on the verge of sending her to a reformatory, so we just got to live and let live and laugh the whole thing off.
Will Rogers
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
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The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Thomas Overbury
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We're brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents - that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes.
Buckminster Fuller
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Parents who are both conscientious and realistic discover sooner or later that they cannot do the job to their own complete satisfaction, much less to their children's complete satisfaction.
Thomas Sowell
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Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
Jonas Salk
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you haven’t time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.
Frank Clark
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Kelland
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