PARENTS

Related Subjects: Adam and Eve, Children, Family, Father, Motherhood

1. Reverence for parents—this standeth written third among the statutes of Justice to whom supreme honor is due.—AESCHYLUS, The Suppliants
   

2. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.—Bible, Exodus 20:12
   

3. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law
   of thy mother.—Bible, Proverbs 1:8
   

4. The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.—Bible, Proverbs 23:22
   

5. Lovers grow cold, men learn to hate their wives,
   And only parents' love can last our lives.—BROWNING, Pippa Passes
   

6. The childless cherubs well might envy thee
   The pleasures of a parent.—BYRON, Cain
   

7. In general those parents have the most reverence who deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas
   

8. Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
   

9. The notion that parents are entitled to respect simply because they are parents is preposterous. The stream of obligation runs strongly the other way. A child owes its parents no gratitude whatever for bringing him into the world (as Swift sardonically said, while they were thinking of something else).—JOHN MACY, About Women
   

10. He is too experienced a parent ever to make positive promises.—CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Thunder on the Left
    

11. One moment makes a father, but a mother
    Is made by endless moments, load on load.—JOHN G. NEIHARDT, Eight Hundred Rubles
    

12. Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

13. If parents would only realize how they bore their children!—BERNARD SHAW, Misalliance
    

14. I tell you there's a wall ten feet thick and ten miles high between parent and child.—BERNARD SHAW, Misalliance
    

15. The relation between parent and child may be an affectionate relation. It may be a useful relation. It may be a necessary relation. But it can never be an innocent relation.—BERNARD SHAW, Misalliance
    

16. He argued that the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy.—ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Doctor Thorne
    

17. Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.—OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray