Parents Quotes

Reverence for parents – this standeth written third among the statutes of justice to whom supreme honor is done. (Aeschylus, 525-456 b.c.)

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them. (Confucius, 551-478 b.c.)

He is too experienced a parent ever to make a positive promises. (Christopher Morley, 1890-1957)

If parents would only realize how they bore their children. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)

Parentage is a very important profession; but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. (George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950)

It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent. (William G. Sumner, 1840-1910)

He argued that the principal duty which a parent owed to a child was to make him happy. (Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882)

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. (Harry S. Truman, 1884-1972)

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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