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“Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.”
Richard Bach
“I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.”
Dave Barry
“From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
Jane Austen
“Parents, teach your children to express themselves. Teach them to be in touch with their emotions, to speak honestly to people, and to maintain integrity and stick by their principles in all they do. This is perhaps the highest morality you can instill. But don't expect them to succeed in business.”
Jeffrey Bryant
“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
“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.”
Phyllis Diller
“My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.”
Michael Jordan
“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.”
Richard Yates
