PARENTS QUOTES IV

quotations about parents

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

BARBARA WALTERS

How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything

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Parents who are ignorant of their duty, will be taught by the misconduct of their children what they ought to have done.

M. LAFAYETTE BYRN

attributed, Day's Collacon


The hand of our parents traces on our feeble hearts those first characters to which example and time give firmness, and which perhaps God alone can efface.

VOLTAIRE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Parents are worthy of reproof, who are unwilling to do good to their children by severe discipline.

PETRONIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


If parents are civil and kind to one another, if children never hear from them profane or coarse language, they will as naturally grow up well-behaved as that candle took the form of the mold it was run in.

CATHARINE M. SEDGWICK

attributed, Day's Collacon


A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

North and South

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I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.

TIGER WOODS

interview, March 17, 2003

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