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Quotes about parents and parentin
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Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him. (Crowe Russell)
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. (Crowe Russell)
Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots. (Crowe Russell)
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? (Crowe Russell)
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Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation. (Crowe Russell)
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion-picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word collectible as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. (Crowe Russell)
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. (Crowe Russell)
The word no Carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes. (Crowe Russell)
Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble. (Crowe Russell)
Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is a plague and a trouble. (Crowe Russell)
I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising. (Crowe Russell)
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. (Crowe Russell)
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. (Crowe Russell)
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. (Crowe Russell)
The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored. (Crowe Russell)
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. (Crowe Russell)
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion. (Crowe Russell)
You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders. (Crowe Russell)
He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief. (Crowe Russell)
I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own. (Crowe Russell)
Parents giving the keys to the car act as if they are giving the keys to the kingdom. (Crowe Russell)
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. (Crowe Russell)
The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age? (Crowe Russell)
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. (Crowe Russell)
Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn --the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness. (Crowe Russell)
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