quotations about parents
Parents who are ignorant of their duty, will be taught by the misconduct of their children what they ought to have done.
M. LAFAYETTE BYRN
attributed, Day's Collacon
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes -- morals, behavior, everything. Absolute trust in someone else is the essence of education.
E. M. FORSTER
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Parents are worthy of reproof, who are unwilling to do good to their children by severe discipline.
PETRONIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERS
How to Talk with Practically Anybody About Practically Anything
If parents are civil and kind to one another, if children never hear from them profane or coarse language, they will as naturally grow up well-behaved as that candle took the form of the mold it was run in.
CATHARINE M. SEDGWICK
attributed, Day's Collacon
A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
North and South
I think, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about my parents as I've got older is you know, how wise they really were. As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that. I had different opinions on a lot of different things then them but the way they raised me, in hindsight, they were right.
TIGER WOODS
interview, March 17, 2003