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"I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter."
"Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail"
"Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control."
"I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small."
"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
"And Allah made the kindness to parents as a protectional shield to His wrath and displeasure."
"I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too."
"I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again."
"All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent"
"For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love."
"If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence."
"There are some parents who have really done it right and told their kid, 'You know, we have this dough, none of this is for you. You have to get your own."
"I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents."
"Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent."
"I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married."
"The child’s parents are not his makers but his guardians."
"Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners."
"My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest."
"I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life."
"Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily."
