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Wayward, disobedient children cause their parents grief and anxiety. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching. -- Gilbert Highet
Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. -- Zachary Quinto
We are not naughty children, and the state is not our parent. -- Heather Brooke
By pushing children and wanting quick success, parents are producing followers, not leaders. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. -- Ogden Nash
When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around. -- Anna Quindlen
Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children. -- Gordon Neufeld
Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back. -- Robert Winston
Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. -- Maurice Sendak
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. -- George Santayana
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together. -- Walt Disney
We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally realize. -- Bill Drayton
All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction. -- James E. Faust
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. -- Russell Baker
Children are to be born into a family where the parents hold the needs of children equal to their own in importance. And children are to love parents and each other. -- Henry B. Eyring
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. -- Jane Fonda
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. -- Dennis Prager
When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit. -- Jerry Falwell
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. -- Steven Pinker
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers. -- Amit Kalantri
The children of childish parents age quickly. -- Mason Cooley
Children learn to smile from their parents. -- Shinichi Suzuki
For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy. -- Upasana Saraf
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So parents, get your children's permission to watch! -- Triple H
Different parents have different standards for their children. -- Penelope Spheeris
It takes dedicated parents to produce consecrated children. -- Elizabeth George
all children blackmail their parents with their innocence. -- Joanne Greenberg
In Sweden, both parents take care of the children. -- Gloria Steinem
Children now expect their parents to audition for approval. -- Mason Cooley
Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children. -- Doris Day
Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children. -- Mason Cooley
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people. -- Les Lye
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too... -- Joyce Maynard
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. -- Mitch Albom
Sometimes maybe children also fulfill their parents' secrets desire. -- Isabelle Huppert
children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people -- Leslye Walton
Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents. -- Mason Cooley
Parents should be the most important examples for their children. -- Christy Turlington
Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa. -- Terry McMillan
Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of course parents want their children to confide in them. -- Dirk Nowitzki
The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children. -- Rand Paul
My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children. -- Caitlin Moran
Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them. -- Pope Francis
Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. -- Emilie Buchwald
If we value our children, we must cherish their parents -- John Bowlby
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov
If parents would only realize how they bore their children. -- George Bernard Shaw
If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you. -- Dick Cavett
Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear. -- Madonna Ciccone
What God is to the world, parents are to their children. -- Philo
I believe government should be loyal to parents, teachers and children. -- J. C. Watts
Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children. -- Iyanla Vanzant
the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents. -- Lady Caroline Lamb
Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children. -- Helen Foster Snow
Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children. -- Amy Dickinson
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. -- Muriel Spark
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents. -- Herbert Spencer
Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues. -- Lisa Ling
Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding. -- Alice Miller
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad. -- John Ray
Children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood. -- Evan Esar
I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents. -- James Bobin
When their children fail to charm others, few parents can stay neutral. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home. -- Aretha Franklin
I often find that the best parents are the ones without children. -- Lisa Vanderpump
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do. -- Wes Fesler
As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are. -- Phil McGraw
With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. -- Samuel Butler
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents. -- Aesop
That's what children are for"?that their parents may not be bored. -- Ivan Turgenev
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully -- Mason Cooley
Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will. -- E. B. White
Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere. -- Sherry Turkle
We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents. -- Criss Jami
Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves? -- Jeffrey Archer
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. -- Ogden Nash
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. -- Plato
Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily. -- Lucille Ball
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children. -- Rick Warren
Parents don't know their children at all.No one knows anyone, in fact. -- Jenny Downham
Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors. -- Brene Brown
No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children -- Manu Joseph
I think children of divorced parents do grow up quicker. You just do. -- Jasmine Guinness
Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors. -- Brene Brown
The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents. -- Dallin H. Oaks
My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. -- Glen Duncan
What better can parents and children give to each other than respectful, understanding attention. -- Richard L. Evans
Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. -- Thomas Lickona
When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. -- R. D. Laing
This would be a better place for children if parents had to eat spinach. -- Groucho Marx
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. -- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. -- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach
Children key off their parents' reaction more than the argument or physical discipline itself. -- Po Bronson
Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school. -- Peter Breggin
Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school. -- Melinda Harmon
I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time. -- Gary Shteyngart
Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess. -- Richard L. Evans
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss? -- Bill Moyers
I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay. -- Jenna Bush
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents. -- Roald Dahl
Parents cannot be in the same physical space as their children at all times. -- Beeban Kidron
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents. -- Charles de Lint
A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react. -- Laura Schlessinger
The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue. -- Richard Kelly
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health. -- Rand Paul
It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents. -- Anthony Horowitz
What we are is our parents' children; what we become is our children's parents. -- Merrit Malloy
Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents. -- Howard G. Hendricks
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Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency. -- Jon Krakauer
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power. -- Henry Fielding
How to advise parents for being successful in raising children stillremains an important unsolved problem. -- Eraldo Banovac

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