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Parents Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a result, millions of…
- Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"…
- What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
- Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
- The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.
- The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the…
- Parents want two opposite things at once: they want their children to excel, and they want their children to be docile. But the two don't…
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- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- 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
- 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
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
- When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to… — Erykah Badu
- I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do… — Erykah Badu
- 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
- I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models. — Charles Barkley
- We're not meant to be parents when we're 50. — Roseanne Barr