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“And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.”
Woody Allen
“A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.”
Raymond Duncan
“[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own psychoanalysis.”
Nora Ephron
“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”
Oscar Wilde
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
John Locke
“The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet”
Isadora Duncan
“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
Jim Morrison
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Maya Angelou
“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
Judy Blume
“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are naïve.”
Ogden Nash
