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Quotes about Parents

7 quotes about parents, from Ogden Nash, John Locke, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and others.

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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
John Locke
Parents are never as bad as kids think they are.
Matt Witten
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
Jane Pauley

Most quoted on parents

  • Ogden Nash1
  • John Locke1
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1
  • Plato1
  • Douglas Fairbanks1
  • Jane Pauley1
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash
I started life with two great advantages: no money, and good parents.
Douglas Fairbanks

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  • Challenges 22 quotes
  • Balance 97 quotes
  • Reverence 5 quotes
  • Legacy 75 quotes
  • Advantages 1 quotes

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