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"In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?"
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
"I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should."
"Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily."
"We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves."
"A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own."
"Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."
"Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet."
"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit."
"I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time. "
"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right."
"Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die."
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