
You can kid the world. But not your sister.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

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.

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.