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In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons there is ambition; but in that to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. - Joseph Addison 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 The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. - Francis Bacon There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. - Henry Ward Beecher Honour 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) Does not nature for the child prepare the parent's love, the tender nurse's care? - Sir Richard Blackmore Parents, to their offspring blind, Consult nor parts, nor turn of mind; But, ev'n in infancy, decree What this, what t'other son shall be. - John Gay A suspicious parent makes an artful child. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents. - Carl Gustav Jung I suppose that every parent loves his child; but I know without any supposing, that in a large number of homes the love is hidden behind authority, or its expression is crowded out by daily duties and cares. - Abbott E. Kittredge 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 Honor thy parents to prolong thy end. - Thomas Randolph 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 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. - Sir Walter Scott The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants. - William Shakespeare Some corrupt in their morals as vice could make them, have yet been solicitous to have their children soberly, virtuously, and piously brought up. - Bishop Robert South It is the most beautiful object the eyes of man can behold to see a man of worth and his son live in an entire, unreserved correspondence. - Sir Richard Steele The most indifferent thing has its force and beauty when it is spoken by a kind father, and an insignificant trifle has its weight when offered by a dutiful child. - Sir Richard Steele 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 Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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