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“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.”
Benjamin Spock
“From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.”
Sophie Tucker
“Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends”
Jacques Delille
“If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents”
Marcelene Cox
“The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.”
John J. Plomp
“The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
Edward VIII
“Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.”
Chastity Bono
“The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.”
Clarence Darrow
“All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent”
Elinor Smith
“I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.”
Bertrand Russell
