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To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
-Chinese Proverb
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You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.
-English Proverb
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He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
-Proverb
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
-Joseph Addison
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It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
-Ama Ata Aidoo
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Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
-W. H. Auden
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
-Francis Bacon
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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
-Samuel Beckett
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We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21:17
-Bible
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To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.
-Josh Billings
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I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.
-Russell Bishop
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The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.
-Smiley Blanton
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
-Allan Bloom
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I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18 years
-Erma Bombeck
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When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.
-Ray Bradbury
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Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
-Barbara Bush
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The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.
-George Herbert Walker Bush
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
-Samuel Butler
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We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world
-Taylor Caldwell
On Growing Up Tough chapter: On Hippies
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
-Thomas Carlyle
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Books about Parenting
