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

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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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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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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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The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Parents and Parenting
Clarence Darrow

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Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
Chance
Jacques Delille

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A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Respectability
Billy Graham

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Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
Parents and Parenting
L. L. Hendren

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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
Advertising
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Virtue
Horace

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Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Parents and Parenting
Elbert Hubbard

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Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots.
Parents and Parenting
Jeremy P. Johnson

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My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Heroes and Heroism
Michael Jordan

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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Parents and Parenting
John Locke

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The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
Rock and Roll
Mitch Miller

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun