“Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”
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“Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.”
“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children”
“A mother who is really a mother is never free”
“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers”
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence”
“Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children”
“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”
“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves”
“That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?”
“Recovering from the death of your mother is not about forgetting, it's about feeling entitled to remember. ”
“Parents hold their children's hands for just a little while .. their hearts forever ”
“My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere”
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers”
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together”
“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”
“God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ”
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.”
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain”
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child”
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection”