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Heather Armstrong

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

Laurens Van der Post

The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

Delia Ephron

In your standard-issue family - of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based - there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.

John Updike

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

Harold Howe II

Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can't think of anything else to do they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don't want them to they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live.

Herodotus

In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Rodney Dangerfield

I was so depressed that I decided to jump from the tenth floor. They sent up a priest. He said " on your mark ......"I was lost and asked a cop to help me find my parents "do you think we'll find them", "I don't know there's so many places to hide"On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.

Batman

Batman You killed my parents. The Joker What What What are you talking about Batman I made you, you made me first. The Joker Give me a break. I was a kid when I killed your parents. When I say I made you you gotta say you made me. How childish can you get

Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

Ogden Nash

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

Peter Ustinov

Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

Muriel Spark

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Quentin

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.

Louis Johannot

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

Rodney Dangerfield

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Rodney Dangerfield

I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Sandy Farquhar

We all grew up in spite of our parents. I trust our children will do likewise.

Aharon Appelfeld

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Rodney Dangerfield

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Child Age 15

I've learned that although it's hard to admit it, I'm secretly glad my parents are strict.

Edward R. Nida

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.

Martin Luther

When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.

Laurence J. Peter

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

Anthony Powell

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Abraham Lincoln

Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Andrew H. Malcolm

The car trip can draw the family together, as it was in the days before television when parents and children actually talked to each other.

Barbara Bush

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.

Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Benjamin Spock

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Helen Hayes

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Benjamin Spock

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble

John Van de Kamp

If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.

Harry S Truman

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

George Chapman

The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers.

DEFOE: _True-Born Englishman,_ Pt. i., Line 1.

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

WALLER: _To Zelinda._

The sap which at the root is bred In trees, through all the boughs is spread; But virtues which in parents shine Make not like progress through the line.

Anne Frank

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Alvin Price

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.

J. D. Salinger

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I remember one day I was at Grandpa's farm and I asked him about sex. He sort of smiled and said, 'Maybe instead of telling you what sex is, why don't we go out to the horse pasture and I'll show you.' So we did, and there on the ground were my parents having sex.

Benjamin Spock

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Lewis Blaine Hershey

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

Rodney Dangerfield

Once when I was lost . . . I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, "Do you think we'll ever find them?" He said, "I don't know kid . . . there are so many places they can hide."

Mary Steichen Calderone

Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Rodney Dangerfield

Once when I was lost.. I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him...Do you think we'll ever find them.? He said..I don't know kid.. there are so many places they can hide.

Jim	When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Parents like stupid things.

And WHAT were those mistakes my parents made?

Most gays have heterosexual parents.

We are the people our parents warned us about

We are the people our parents warned us about.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

By the time I realized my parents were right, I had kids that didn't believe me.

My foolish parents taught me to read and write.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Learn from your parents' mistakes: use birth control.

NEWS! Survivor of siamese twins joins parents

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

"I meet my maker(s) each night for dinner.I call them 'my parents'.-AY

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

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 t

"We all lose our parents, kid" -- Lord Albrecht, Silver Fang

"Deathmask! They played at my parents anniversary." -- Mike Nelson

"Human parents don't love their children as Cardassians do."--Madred

"Trusting your parents can be hazardous to your health." - Calvin

"Must go home and kill parents." -- Mike Nelson

"Ladies and gentlemen, the parents of the Beatles!" -- Tom Servo

"Obscure joke, talk to your parents." - Dot Warner

"Pushy parents can drive you nuts"-Greta

"Bother," said Pooh, as his parents turned up at the rave

"Catpain, Ambassador Sarek and his wife ARE my parents."

"Bother" said Pooh, as his parents turned up at the rave

"Bother," said Pooh, when his parents confiscated the modem

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

"I am one of the people your parents warned you about." - The Beast

"Bother," said @F, as his parents turned up at the rave

"Bother," said @F, when his parents confiscated the modem

"Of all the luck, my parents had to be human." - Calvin