Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
Barbara Schapiro
Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
Bern Williams
ThatÃs 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
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou
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
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
Henry Ward Beecher
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
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
Listening to parents' advice is sort of like watching commercials. You know what's coming, you've heard it all before, it's a big bore, but you listen anyway
Unknown
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down
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