“You have to love your children unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.”
“There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.”
“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
“Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
“Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom.”
“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”
“The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.”
“It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.”
“The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.”
“Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him.”
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.”
“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.”
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
“The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.”
“If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.”
“The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.”
“In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.”
“I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.”
“Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.”
“He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.”
“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.”
“From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?”
“No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.”
“I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.”
“To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own -- this is happiness.”
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”
“Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?”
“I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: ''Checkout Time is 18 years.''”
“Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?”
“I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.”