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The superior man, while his parents are alive, reverently nourishes them; and, when they are dead, reverently sacrifices to them. His thought to the end of his life is how not to disgrace them.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
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
Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and your purpose will be fixed.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
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, Mar. 17, 2003
The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with torture called education.
If you’ve never been hated by your child, you’ve never been a parent.
BETTE DAVIS, CBS TV, May 5, 1985
A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Dr. Boucher, May 13, 1770
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
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