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“What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.”

“If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."”

“Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that enables forgiveness. It's above energy, though it may be expressed energetically. It's our essential nature: Spirit itself, the quality we share with God. And it is the binding force of the Universe, inherent in all that is.”

“The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.”

Children States Facts Past Science Parent Evolution Future Doctrine

Book:The Outline of Science, First Volume

Source: The Outline of Science, First Volume

“The lessons you are meant to learn are in your work. To see them, you need only look at the work clearly - without judgment, without need or fear, without wishes or hopes. Without emotional expectations. Ask your work what it needs, not what you need. Then set aside your fears and listen, the way a good parent listens to a child”

Way Life Inspirational Needs Looks Children Beautiful Asks Wish Parent Emotional Lessons Judgment Expectations Experience Good Parent

Author:David Bayles

“Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.”

Children Country Matter School Parent Goal Common Clear Teacher Students Standards Educational Backgrounds Realistic School Teachers Realistic Goals

Author:Roy Romer

“Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.”

“There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new, lifelong status. If you lose a spouse, you are a widow; if you lose a parent, you are an orphan. But what about when you lose a child? How do you name something you cannot comprehend?”

Ifs Children Pain Names Parent Loses Labels Grieving Spouse New Life Lifelong Widows Orphan Burying

Author:Lisa Belkin

“When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."”

Firsts Age Parent Dear Driven Paradise Transition Adam Adam And Eve

Book:Labels & Libels

Source: Labels & Libels

“The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!”

Children Done Wish Parent Our Children Parenting Golden Your Children Golden Rule

Author:Louise Hart

“Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.”

Giving Children Father Opportunity Parent Our Children

Author:Louise Hart

“Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.”

Love Children Two Happiness Parent Friendship Family Relationship Mom Clever Parenthood Thank You Funny Inspirational Referee Funny Parenting Funny Parent

Author:David Frost

“As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective.”

Way Needs Persons Parent Poor Attitude Leader Higher Gratitude Behavior Standards Commitment Performances Hinder Higher Standards Poor Performance

Author:Hal Elrod

“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.”

Children Problem Form Parent Influence Television Color Products Baby Expectations Motherhood Shade Ads Problem Solving Being A Parent

Book:Between generations: the six stages of parenthood

Source: Between generations: the six stages of parenthood

“Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.”

Needs Self Culture Parent Teaching Security Expectations Encouragement Clarity Balanced Self Reliance Reliance Educator Playfulness

Book:Wise Up

Source: Wise Up

“Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.”

Ifs Children Important Parent Family Manners

Book:Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years

Source: Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years

“Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.”

Ifs Knows Way Children Said Feelings Asks Felt Parent Answers Healing Know How Behavior Behave Toxic Teens Translate Comforting How To Love Unloved Sandy

Author:Susan Forward

“Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.”

“Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.”

Needs Feels Trying Children Parent Difficult Results Risk Masters Guidance Mature Controlled Anxious Fearful Helpless Manipulate Ongoing Inadequate Parental Parental Guidance

Author:Susan Forward

“When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into a story which will be marketed for children, because children understand what their parents have rejected and forgotten.”

Children Ideas Enough Stories Parent Forgotten Radical Upset Rejected Grappling

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“My parents are my No. 1 supporters and they always have been.”

Has Beens Parent Supporter

Author:Mariel Zagunis

“When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family, not specifically educated, so we were watching popular movies. My dad liked cowboy movies, so we were watching cowboy movies. Some of them were amazing. It’s a genre of movie I like very much.”

Kids Wanted Parent Class Watches Dad My Dad Educated Genre Working Class Cowboy Cowboy Movie Popular Movie

Author:Olivier Martinez

“No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.”

Country Matter Parent Born Chance Poor Talent Like You Circumstances Connected

Author:Marco Rubio

“Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.”

Knows Children Joy Parent Our Lives Treasure Adopted Cindy Adopted Children Adoptive Parents

Author:John McCain

“The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.”

Parent Anxiety Obsession Being A Parent

Author:Vera Farmiga

“I recently watched that Lucie Arnaz-produced documentary [Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie, 1992] about her parents [Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz], and I saw so much of my own childhood there.”

Home Parent My Own Saws Childhood Balls Documentaries Lucy

Author:Ben Stiller

“My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had cable. And I constantly watched horror movies.”

Reason Wanted Parent Watches Tvs Horror Bizarre Cables Great Parents

Author:Christopher Bollen

“Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.”

Bigs Parent Reader

Author:Christopher Bollen

“The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.”

Country Parent Income Dependent Prospects

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“We don't know the end from the beginning the way that God does. So when a child dies, sure that is incredibly difficult, and when you are the parent, there is almost nothing anybody can say to you that makes any sense.”

Knows Way Children Doe Ends Dies Parent Difficult

Author:Benjamin Carson

“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.”

Years Two Kids Age Games Sports Parent Talking Boys Stupid Youth Adventure Daughter Eight Driving My Daughter Hockey Fourteen Trophies Idiotic Good Relationship Youth Sports Close Family

Author:Jeff Daniels

“In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.”

People Way Parent Levels Rooms Watches Laughing Saws Proud Odd Proud Of Me

Author:Lizz Winstead

“Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.”

Parent Sound Forever Sweetest Mute

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.”

Ifs May Children Character Parent Poetic

Book:Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

Source: Woman in the 19th century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

Should Wells Children Art Parent Knowledge Virtue Concern Careful Manners Innocence Good Manners More Knowledge Speaking Well

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.”

Parent Unhappy Faithful Misfortunes Parenthood Rashness

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.”

People Way Heart I Can Important Stories Spirit Culture Literature Parent Imagination Imagine Best Way Storytelling Heart To Heart

Author:Alice Walker

“The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.”

Parent Youth Affection Chiefs Modesty Kindred Recommendations

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?”

World Parent Events Thinker Arrivals Epoch Great Events

Book:The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.”

World Children Feelings Peace Parent Wife Husband Dependent Husband And Wife Children And Parents Love And War

Author:Dalai Lama

“The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.”

Parent Boys Sells Parenting Shakes

Author:Stephen Leacock

“O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.”

Thinking Men Feels May Children Home Eye Parent Wife Bravery Ashamed Scorn Absent Be A Man

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.”

Way Moving Life Is Parent Family Track Moving In

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.”

Mind Children Life Is Purpose Parent Education Teach Accomplish Pleasant Leisure Harvard Liberal Education

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.”

Men Government Kids Law Young Parent Attitude Teacher Please Young Man Mortification Change Your Attitude

Book:I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

Source: I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure

“Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.”

Years Age Parent Example Youth Periods Adolescence Rapids Rapid Change

Author:Al Bernstein

“This is hard for parents to say genuinely.”

Hard Parent

Author:Rollo May

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.”

Wells Children Kids Language Grows Parent Growing Up Example Skills Violent Lenient Language Skills

Author:Steven Pinker

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