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Quotes about Parents


Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

Daniel Defoe

The son of parents pass'd into the skies.

William Cowper

Notions of wickedness are hypocritical emanations from the parents, the elders, the state

Having children will turn you into your parents.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore. And that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teen-ager wondering about each other.

Laurence J. Peter

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy--the mother.

Claudette Colbert

Having children will turn you into your parents.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy--the mother.

Claudette Colbert

Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.

Rita Rudner

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.

Carl Jung

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To understand your parents' love, bear your own children.

Chinese saying

By trying to make things easier for their children parents can make things much harder for them.

Mardy Grothe

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Leo Buscaglia

The Two Dogs A man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home after a good day's sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at this, reproached his companion, saying, It is very hard to have all this labor, while you, who do not assist in the chase, luxuriate on the fruits of my exertions. The Housedog replied, Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others. Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

Aesop

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alfred Alder

D'Adam nous sommes tous enfants, La prove en est connue, Et que tous, nos premier parents Ont mene la charrue. Mais, las de cultiver enfin La terre labouree L'une a detele le matin, L'autre l'apres-dinee.

Marquis Philippe Emanuel de Coulanges

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.

Daniel Defoe

At the time, my grandparents told my mom, "Lordy, what is Shannen doing?" Now I've calmed down. [on her reputation for bad behavior].

Shannen Doherty

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Hosea Ballou

But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

Francis Beaumont and John Bible

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Jean de La Socrates

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