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Quotations by Subject: Parents
(Related Subjects: Children, Birth, Marriage)
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.: Peter De Vries
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.: Rita Rudner
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.: Rita Rudner
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.: Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
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, O Magazine, May 2003
If everyone had a dad like mine, no one would have sex tapes.: Tina Fey, David Letterman Interview, 2011
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
It is a wise father that knows his own child.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2

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