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Parent Quotes by Joyce Maynard
- The word NO, carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
- It's not only children who grow. Parents do too...
- The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.
- It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are…
- Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother…
- When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love…
- For a parent, it's hard to recognize the significance of your work when you're immersed in the mundane details. Few of us, as we run…
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- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
- When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the… — Jim Bishop
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is… — Russell Baker
- My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot