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

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

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.

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.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

As a man, I’ve been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

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.

Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

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

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

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

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver – the teachers, the parents, the friends.

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

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the unalienable rights with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims ‘all Men are endowed by their Creator.’

If I had my child to raise all over again,I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.I’d run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I’d do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I’d build self esteem first, and the house later.I’d teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it’s a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they’re the right religion.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

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

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

I’m a parent. I think we’re responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don’t blame them for any of it. I blame us for what we haven’t done as mothers and fathers, not sticking together as a unit.

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