It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Religion is based … mainly upon fear … fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.

It’s wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.

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.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

Living happily with parents requires adjustments. That takes care of most demons of our minds.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother’s Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea that all parents are somehow superior to non-parents.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that’s where it’s really at.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

I like my life. I’ve had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it’s an easy burden.

What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived

My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they’re finished, I climb out.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It’s in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

I guess that’s one of the things about growing up in the fifties – it never occurred to me that you wouldn’t be at least as successful as your parents.

Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money.

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, I think I heard you say lawyer.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.

As a parent, if you have multiple kids, you can’t teach them all the same thing because they all have different personalities. They’re their own person.

I actually didn’t enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I’m thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

I haven’t lived my life through my daughters. Some parents devote everything to their children, which must be so hard, and it’s very beautiful. But I’m a working parent, so I’ve always kept my own life.