Parent Quotes

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What God is to the world, parents are to their children. — Philo
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the… — Khalil Gibran
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. — Horace
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . .… — Joseph Story
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. — Homer
If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their… — John C. Maxwell
I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I… — Fred Rogers
Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents… — Anne McCaffrey
Our parents taught us to love God, love our family and love our country. Their own grandparents were immigrants. Their first language may not have… — Martin O'Malley
Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted… — Stephen Covey
I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image. — James Hillman
I've been very blessed. My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted. When you grow up in a household like that, you… — Ricky Schroder
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents. — Herbert Spencer
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die! — Philip Roth
If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the… — Katherine Jenkins
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents… — Bertrand Russell
One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I… — Bobby Sherman
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done… — Brittany Snow
My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd… — Vincent Gallo

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