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Quotes about Parents


Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.

Mad Anonymous

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -Peter Ustinov.

Peter Ustinov

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

Henry Ward Beecher

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Ogden Nash

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

Francis Bacon

I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the last man to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.

John Unknown

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

Bonnie Blair

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Alan Watts

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Eric Hoffer

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Bill Cosby

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Henry Louis Mencken

My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their anxiety. To some people that might sound like repression, but I think repression can be a positive value.

Tom Wolfe

Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.

Chinese Proverb

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Ernst Heinrich Haeckel

In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents.

Wally Goodwin

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father

Greg Norman

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.

Mignon Mclaughlin

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Samuel Johnson

Where is it written in the Constitution that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or wickedness of government may engage it?

Daniel Webster

The chief recommendation [in a young man] is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. [Lat., Prima commendiato proficiscitur a modestia tum pietate in parentes, tum in suos benevolentia.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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