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"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
-Mark Twain
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"Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."
-Chuck Palahniuk
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"One 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 Woods
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"Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son."
-Lois McMaster Bujold
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"My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more."
-Barry Humphries
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"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
-Bertrand Russell
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"There is…nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people."
-H. R. Schaffer
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"Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."
-Ogden Nash
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"The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears."
-Ellen Goodman
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"What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply."
-Sonia Taitz
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"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth."
-Peter Ustinov
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"A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life."
-W. Somerset Maugham
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"Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before."
-Rita Rudner
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"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."
-Elain Heffner
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"If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you."
-Dick Cavett
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"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
-Calvin Trillin
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"My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years."
-Cathy Ladman
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"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."
-Anthony Powell
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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."
-Barbara Schapiro
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"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."
-Dr. Haim Ginott
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"The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them."
-Arnold Bennett
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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."
-John Ciardi
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"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names."
-Alice Walker
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"Sooner or later we all quote our mothers."
-Bern Williams
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"Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally."
-Leonard Roy Frank
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"If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents."
-Marcelene Cox
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"The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children."
-Euripides
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"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
-Homer
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