There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good
Dar Williams
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
Samuel Johnson
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
Plato
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure
Robert South
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?
Tryon Edwards
If you have never been hated by your child you have never been a parent.
Bette Davis
Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thomas Carlyle
Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.
Lemuel K. Washburn
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.
Thomas Jefferson
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Cicero