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Letter "P" » 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.»
«Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.»
«Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.»
«Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.»
«Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them»
«Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.»
«Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.»
«Parents are the bone on which children sharpen their teeth»
«Parents 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.»
«Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality»