You can kid the world. But not your sister.

- Charlotte Gray

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

- Phyllis Diller

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents.

- Anonymous

When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will.

- Anonymous

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

- Frederick Buechner

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

- Herbert Hoover

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

- Maya Angelou

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

- Bill Cosby

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet

- Bill Cosby

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

- Thomas Paine

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

- Dame Agatha Christie

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

- Val Kilmer

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

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

- Dan Quayle

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

- Anne Frank

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

- Robert Fulghum

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

- Billy Graham

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

- Pericles

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.

- Alan Watts

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

- Margaret Sanger

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

- Brigham Young

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

- Doris Day

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

- Henry Rollins

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

- Margaret Mead

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

- Woody Allen

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

- Queen Mary

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

- H. L. Mencken

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

- Ogden Nash

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

- Ogden Nash

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

- David Beckham

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

- George Santayana

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

- Gloria Steinem

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

- Meryl Streep

I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.'

- Cameron Diaz

I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.

- Justin Timberlake

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

- Marian Wright Edelman

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

- Herbert Spencer

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

- John Gardner

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

- O. J. Simpson