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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

-Buddha

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

-Billy Graham

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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

-Henry Ward Beecher

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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

-Sigmund Freud

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Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

-Ron Taffel

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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

-John F. Kennedy

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A mother who is really a mother is never free.

-Honore de Balzac

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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

-Carl Jung

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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

-Plato

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Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

-Charles R. Swindoll

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Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

-Evan Bayh

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

-George Bernard Shaw

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A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

-Bill Cosby

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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

-Voltaire

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The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

-Bill Cosby

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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

-Erma Bombeck

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Every cliche about kids is true they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

-Liam Neeson

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We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

-Roy L. Smith

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Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

-Phyllis Diller

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Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

-Arnold H. Glasow

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

-Doug Larson

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Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

-Gloria Steinem

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At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

-Jane D. Hull

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Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

-Russell Baker

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Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

-Miriam Makeba

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I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

-Harry Connick, Jr.

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

-Garrison Keillor

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There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

-Anthony Edwards

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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

-Martin Mull

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