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"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
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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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"“Change is the parent of progress."" »Steve Maraboli
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"No job is more difficult or more rewarding than being a parent." »Charles Lauller
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"If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent." »Bette Davis
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." »Cicero
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"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." »Daniel Webster
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." »Aristotle
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"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." »Miguel de Unamuno
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"Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion." »Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04
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"The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent." »Mell Lazzarus
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"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." »M. Grundler
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"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day." »O. A. Battista
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"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent." »Carl Jung
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"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent." »Plato
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"Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled." »Thomas Andrew Bailey
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"In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm." »Isaac Rosenfeld
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"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
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"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
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"But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts." »Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
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"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." »Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness." »Oscar Wilde
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"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
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"Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist." »Michael Levine
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"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory." »Richard Whately
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"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
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"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
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"The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children." »Brian Sutton-Smith
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