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Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that of parents toward their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is unnatural. - Joseph Addison They all disowned their parents long ago, the way you are supposed to. - Margaret Atwood Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. - Bible, Exodus (ch. XX, v. 12) Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents. - Carl Gustav Jung With joy the parent loves to trace Resemblance in his children's face: And, as he forms their docile youth To walk the steady paths of truth, Observes them shooting into men, And lives in them life o'er again. - Robert Lloyd They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks. - Henry Louis Mencken Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. - Ogden Nash Next to God, thy parents. - William Penn Whoever makes his father's heart to bleed, Shall have a child that will revenge the deed. - Thomas Randolph Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. - George Santayana Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for "Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father." - Jeremy Taylor How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he has planted. - Unknown, Scot's Magazine Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth. - Peter Ustinov
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