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Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

Barbara Schapiro

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

Jill Churchill

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

Thatís sort of a clichÈ about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.

Heather Armstrong

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Bill Cosby

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends

Jacques Delille

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Chinese Proverbs

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

Elbert Hubbard

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other

Francis Bacon, Sr.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Dave Barry

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

Woody Allen

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them

Unknown

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Pope John Paul II

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Arnold Bennett

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

Peter Ustinov

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Dr. Haim Ginott

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

Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.

Marcelene Cox

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Charles DeLint

A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.

Raymond Duncan

There are no illegitimate children - only illegitimate parents.

Leon R. Yankwich

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Phyllis Diller

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