| |  | | | | | | | | | | | Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth | | Peter Ustinov | | | Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. | | Peter Ustinov | | | Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. | | Anne Frank | | | Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality | | George Santayana | | | Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. | | Ogden Nash | | | The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. | | M. Grundler | | | The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children | | Clarence Darrow | | | The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. | | Clarence Darrow | | | The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | | There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children. | | Bertrand Russell | | | We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. | | Isaac Bashevis Singer | | | Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves. | | Elbert Hubbard | | | | | | | |
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