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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Parents and Parenting
Ama Ata Aidoo

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Poverty and The Poor
Aristotle

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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Death and Dying
Red Auerbach

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Parents and Parenting
Francis Bacon

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Brevity
Hosea Ballou

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Hope is the parent of faith.
Hope
Cyrus A. Bartol

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The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
Inheritance
Orlando A. Battista

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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
Family
Henry Ward Beecher

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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
Parents and Parenting
Henry Ward Beecher

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This film is apparently meaningless, but if it has any meaning it is doubtless objectionable.
Censorship
British Board of Film

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Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
Education
Patrick Buchanan

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Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.
Decisions
George Canning

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Spirit and Spirituality
Thomas Carlyle

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Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thoughts and Thinking
Thomas Carlyle

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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
Tact and Tactfulness
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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True love is the parent of humility.
Love
William Ellery Channing

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

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To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Parents and Parenting
Chinese Proverb

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Gratitude
Marcus T. Cicero

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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Parents and Parenting
Frank A. Clark

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

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Children
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Family
Confucius

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Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
Parents and Parenting
Bill Cosby

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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Children
Rodney Dangerfield

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun