parents quotes

• Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. (Alan Bennett) [parents]
• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. (John Locke) [parents/wonder]
• The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. (John Updike) [wisdom/parents/education]
• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. (Francis Bacon) [parents]
• We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves. (Henry Ward Beecher) [love/parents]
• It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents. (Samuel Butler) [music/parents]
• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. (Samuel Butler) [parents/people]
• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure. (George Canning) [parents]
• The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. ( Confucius) [parents/age/joy/anxiety]
• Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet. (Bill Cosby) [parents]
• When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. (Rodney Dangerfield) [parents]
• The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. (Clarence Seward Darrow) [life/parents]
• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends. (Jacques Delille) [chance/parents/choice]
• The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path. (Florence Griffith-Joyner) [parents/path]
• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he. (William Hazlitt) [contempt/parents]
• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away. (George Herbert) [lord/care/parents/sorrow]
• Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [parents]
• It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. ( Horace) [parents]
• Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children. (Samuel Johnson) [parents/child/parents/parents]
• He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when the sentence was about to be pronounced, pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was orphan. (Abraham Lincoln) [parents/mercy/orphan]
• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. (John Locke) [parents/wonder]
• The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder. (Jim Morrison) [parents/destroy]
• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. (Ogden Nash) [parents]
• Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. ( Plato) [parents/spirit]
• Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? (Alexander Pope) [sin/parents]
• In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. (John Ruskin) [countries/parents/countries/parents]
• Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollections. (John Ruskin) [parents/past/parents/future]
• No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest. (Bertrand Russell) [matter/parents]
• I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity. (Bertrand Russell) [time/parents/love/war]
• Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. (George Santayana) [parents/experience/memory/parents]
• Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. (Muriel Spark) [parents/life]

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