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I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist. I got $2, 100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit. - Casey Dillon Stengel


The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?' - Joseph A. Schumpeter


Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. - Hosea Ballou


A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react. - Dr. Laura Schlessinger


Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. - Marcelene Cox


The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. - Thomas Hardy


Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. - Plato


The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety. - Confucius


It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful that is misplaced. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu


It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children. - Ama Ata Aidoo


This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it. - Lyndon Baines Johnson


Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. - John A. Locke


The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends. - Samuel Johnson


Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. - Evelyn Waugh


My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds. I cannot marry all of them, or bear them all as children, or care for them all as I would my parents in illness or old age. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh