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Fred Rogers2 quotes
We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others. — Fred Rogers · 2003It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life. — Fred Rogers · 2003Andrew Clark1 quote
My God, are we gonna be like our parents? — Andrew Clark · 1985Atticus Finch1 quote
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from ya. That's never possible. — Atticus Finch · 1962Bob Harris1 quote
It's the most terrifying day of your life the day the first one is born. — Bob Harris · 2003Carl Jung1 quote
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. — Carl Jung · 1939Frank Costanza1 quote
George, we’ve had it with you. Understand? We love you like a son, but even parents have limits. — Frank Costanza · 1997God1 quote
Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. — God · 1405 BCHarry Truman1 quote
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it. — Harry Truman · 1955James Baldwin1 quote
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models. — James Baldwin · 1960Jonathan Swift1 quote
They will never allow that a child is under any obligation to his father for begetting him, or his mother for bringing him into the world - which, considering the miseries of human life, was neither a benefit in itself nor intended so by his parents, whose thoughts in their love encounters were otherwise employed. — Jonathan Swift · 1726Leo Tolstoy1 quote
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. — Leo Tolstoy · 1877Mary Wollstonecraft1 quote
Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a Divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft · 1792Muhammad1 quote
Set not up with God another god, or thou wilt sit condemned and forsaken. The Lord has decreed you shall not serve any but Him, and be good to parents... Speak unto them words respectful, and lower to them the wing of humbleness out of mercy and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them, as they raised me up when I was little." — Muhammad · 632Oscar Wilde1 quote
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde · 1893Peter De Vries1 quote
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. — Peter De Vries · 1954Philip Larkin1 quote
They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you. — Philip Larkin · 1971Ring Lardner1 quote
Are you lost daddy I asked tenderly.
Shut up he explained. — Ring Lardner · 1920Roger Lewin1 quote
Too often we give our children the answers to remember rather than the problems to solve. — Roger Lewin · 1974SS Doctor1 quote
You may keep one of your children. The other one must go. — SS Doctor · 1982Sam Levenson1 quote
Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children. — Sam Levenson · 1961Sophocles1 quote
Sons are the anchors of a mother's life. — Sophocles · 400 BCThomas Kyd1 quote
My son-and what's a son? A thing begot
Within a pair of minutes, thereabout,
A lump bred up in darkness. — Thomas Kyd · 1592William Ross Wallace1 quote
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that rules the world. — William Ross Wallace · 1865William Shakespeare1 quote
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child. — William Shakespeare · 1606