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“The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.”
A. P. Gouthey
“Respect for one's parents is the highest duty of civil life.”
Proverb
“Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.”
David Frost
“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”
Nancy Friday
“Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”
Winston Churchill
“Always obey your parents - when they are present.”
Mark Twain
“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.”
Helen Hayes
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.”
Robert MacNeil
“I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.”
Woody Allen
