The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney HarrisThe parents were abed and sleeping. The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare
Henry Jackson Van DykeMy parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
Kelly RipaParents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith MartinGreat families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who (The True-Born Englishman)
Daniel DefoeI always have been proud of being a Swiss, but I don't know very much about His [Switzerlands's] glory story, as my parents left to France in the year 1886 when I was seven an half years old.
Louis ChevroletFor the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.
Earl WilsonOne of the things that my parents have taught me is never listen to other people's expectations. You should live your own life and live up to your own expectations, and those are the only things I really care about it.
Tiger WoodsNot being born to parents who were accountants was probably my biggest mistake.
Chris EubankThe best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.
Natalie PortmanI'm probably going to be one of those very embarrassing parents who's a naturist.
Robbie WilliamsAll children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Gore VidalMaybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
Jim CarreyRather than just a binary choice between grammar schools for some and secondary modern for others, it is far better to have wider diversity in schools and greater choice for parents
David DavisI find it easy to understand why the likes of Sarah-Louise end up going astray. Everybody hits that stage where the more your parents try to keep you close, the more you want to break free. But I was nowhere near as bad as Sarah-Louise is, although my mum might disagree.
Tina O'BrienThe problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
Charles DeLintI owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
Greg NormanHi, we are Sum 41 and we're just something your parents will never understand
Deryck WhibleyBeing an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie FlaggI think that when people hear that my middle name is Moon they start to wonder a thing or two about my parents!
Soleil FryeIt certainly seems contradictory of the [local] council to be encouraging parents to stop using their cars to take children to school but at the same time taking so long about the safe routes initiative.
Sally WhittakerI've told them they have to support England and if they don't, they won't be getting a ticket. [on his parents watching England]
Sajid MahmoodWhat is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin SpockThe excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.
Thomas HardyKids today are much more independent than their parents were. We're really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago. Or, at least, we are involved in sex earlier
Phoebe CatesAduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
Erma BombeckA child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy GrahamMy parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7
David BeckhamMy parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and his influence on me has been profound.
Laura LinneyIf I had to choose between wealth and a united family, I would 1,000 per cent have preferred my parents to stay together.
Minnie DriverMy parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.
Fernando AlonsoMy parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.
Queen MaryThe central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
Eric HofferParents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill CosbyFortunately, my parents always encouraged me to be grateful that I was healthy, and stand up and be proud and carry myself with dignity.
Susan AntonParents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
Jane HowardSome children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
Roald DahlThe thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children!
King Edward VIIII didn't understand why he wasn't returning my calls [when her parents split]
Nicole RichieSaving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Winston ChurchillParents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R Buckminster FullerAll that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.
Catherine Zeta JonesParents and teachers are not up in arms about minors buying lads mags simply because they do not
Piers HernuMy name is Brian Green by birth. Austin was made up by my parents when I was nine, because there was another Brian Green in the Screen Actors Guild.
Brian Austin GreenLabour have already given parents the power to draw up plans for their own schools
Jim KnightPeople who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
Aharon AppelfeldChildren nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannise their teachers.
SocratesOliver Letwin has insulted the parents, teachers and pupils of every state school in the country.
Stephen TwiggI am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur RimbaudChildren aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
Ogden Nash
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