"Whatever the parents are doing, the kids will follow suit."
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"The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need."
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"All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them."
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"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too."
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"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
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"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
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"Don't quarrel with your parents even if you are on the right."
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"In search of my mother's garden, I found my own."
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"Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows."
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"You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
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"Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become."
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"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
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"If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."
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"Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways."
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"It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground."
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"Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone."
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"Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature."
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"The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way."
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"Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother"
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