Parenting Quote by Joseph Heller

“War ... it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller

“Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.”

— Plato

“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.”

— Laurie Frankel

“He spoke as if procreation of children were an extraordinary fate to overtake anyone, consequence of imprudence, if not worse.”

— Anthony Powell

“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.…

— Tony Burgess

“Father's world was unsparing. Nothing good came free, even love. You paid for all things, and if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of my own if it were…

— Jean Plaidy

“Children hated generously, capriciously.”

— Ian McEwan

“What kind of parent would want their children to have servants?” he asks, disgusted by the idea. “The moment a child thinks it is…

— Pierce Brown

“and I discovered my limitations, and mainly I learned that there was a price to pay for that childhood (it turns out there’s no…

— David Grossman