Child Quote by Samuel Richardson

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them.

— Anonymous

I think, a lot of times, people don't want to do what their parents do because they want to be their own person.

— Margaret Qualley

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

— Dorothy Dix

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

— Mason Cooley

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

— Anthony Powell

Youth boasts about having something that didn't cost them anything to obtain and that will last them very little

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Parents are always giving things that are not taken”

— Ally Condie

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their…

— Harold S. Kushner

By the time a girl becomes a teenager, her parents are so old that she cannot do anything with them.

— Anonymous

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

— Stephen Kendrick