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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Red AuerbachRead
Always obey your parents - when they are present.
Mark TwainRead
The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.
Yamamoto TsunetomoRead
It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
Washington IrvingRead
It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.
Richard DawkinsRead
So much does the moral health depend upon the moral atmosphere that is breathed, and so great is the influence daily exercised by parents over their children by living a life before their eyes, that perhaps the best system of parental instruction might be summed up in these two words: 'Improve thyself.'
Samuel SmilesRead
The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.
Bear BryantRead
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
Doris LessingRead
I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.
Albert EinsteinRead
Children do not constitute anyone's property: _x000D_ _x000D_ they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. _x000D_ _x000D_ They belong only to their own future freedom.
Mikhail BakuninRead
If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
Kofi AnnanRead
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 SpockRead
The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
William ShakespeareRead
The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.
John LennonRead
This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.
Iyanla VanzantRead
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
C. Everett KoopRead
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
Herbert SpencerRead
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
Margaret MeadRead
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T. E. LawrenceRead
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.
Jonas SalkRead
Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.
Abraham LincolnRead

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