I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.
If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.''
In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do –or don't do.
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
Love well, whip well.
Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion.
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
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