Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
John Locke
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
Elbert Hubbard
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
Amy Vanderbilt
Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.
Robert MacNeil
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
Chinese Proverbs
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
Adolescence is perhaps nature's way of preparing parents to welcome the empty nest.
Karen Savage and Patricia Adams
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Marian Wright Edelman
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
Peter Ustinov