| "All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood." »Benjamin McLane Spock |
| "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 |
| "If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent." »Bette Davis |
| "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." »Cicero |
| "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." »Aristotle |
| "Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." »Miguel de Unamuno |
| "A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." »Daniel Webster |
| "A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." »M. Grundler |
| "Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent." »Carl Jung |
| "Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled." »Thomas Andrew Bailey |
| "Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." »Plato |
| "No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child." »Thomas Andrew Bailey |
| "To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness." »Oscar Wilde |
| "If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings." »Brian Tracy |
| "Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." »Michael Levine |
| "Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory." »Richard Whately |
| "The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters." »Rachel Blanchard |
| "Each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends, to be as happy as we can be. And if you don't believe me, ask a child what it's like to grow up with an unhappy parent, or ask parents what they suffer if they have an unhappy child." »Dennis Prager |
| "God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents." »Phyllis Mcginley |
| "Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life." »Quentin Crisp |
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