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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.


Allan Bloom

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BENJAMIN SPOCK mothers and fathers are sick and tired of seeing the values assaulted that they are trying to teach ...
DAN QUAYLE The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
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JAMAAL MAGLOIRE Let me tell you that the children from their very birth are born to evil. Satan seems to have contro...
ELLEN G. WHITE The message was that ... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the ch...
DAN QUAYLE The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
BERTRAND RUSSELL If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON It was horrible to hear the children's screams. Some children were yelling for their mothers and fat...
OUMAR CISSE Many mothers are unaware they have the power themselves to provide enough milk for their own baby, l...
MARY WEBER After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [e...
JANIS JOPLIN Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children...
EVAN BAYH Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.
They move on. They move a...
PAULO COELHO Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the...
BROM Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...
MITCH ALBOM Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...
MITCH ALBOM The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place...
BIBLE I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I v...
PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For ...
WILHELM REICH It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting littl...
ROALD DAHL The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to b...
BERTRAND RUSSELL They have to know that what they have can be lost. That's important, for them to know they are not e...
WILLIAM MURRAY Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love t...
FRIEDRICH LIST Love your children, for they are the seeds that will make this city bloom.
JESSIE BURTON We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected ...
ELLEN GOODMAN And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, ...
MARGUERITE DURAS Even now, where you have single fathers raising their children too, not just single mothers.
SANDRA DIALS The effect of all this opposition is not to prevent gay people from becoming parents. All it can do ...
ADAM PERTMAN Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.
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SAMUEL WEST I raised five children. They all have different personalities. All of them have different issues, di...
T. D. JAKES They have felt for six years that this shooting was completely unnecessary, unjustified, illegal and...
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T. REAL Like young children, they aren't always where they should be and they aren't always following along ...
DAVID SCHOFIELD That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bot...
FRANCES FARMER They lost their parents. They lost their normal surroundings and often feel they are at fault. I fel...
GORDON JOHNSON Children have such vibrant minds. They need to play. They need to be creative. They need to imagine....
JAN BRETT The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY I despised how those pale-faced vegans held their little spoons, humbling themselves. Who do they th...
RAWI HAGE Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER These birth mothers tried to make a plan for them that they might have a better life. If they hadn't...
ELAINE WILLIAMS Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at th...
JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN These kids are all really close, and they've proved that all year by being a fantastic team. They pr...
BILL VERBETEN Mothers are such rare and loving beings. They have the amazing ability to see the good in everyone; ...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI The theory is that predators ... are looking for places where they can have quick and easy access to...
ERIC SPACEK Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting -- in t...
ZIG ZIGLAR What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after a...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
VIKTOR YUSHCHENKO Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israeli...
MOSAB HASSAN YOUSEF All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD The idea of gas engines was by no means new, but this was the first time that a really serious effor...
HENRY FORD No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. B...
SARAH RUHL All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have...
BIBLE Mothers of preschoolers have certain fears in common. They fear when their babies start walking, the...
DEBBY RUSSELL Mothers of preschoolers have certain fears in common, ... They fear when their babies start walking,...
DEBBY RUSSELL Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the...
ZIG ZIGLAR People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always...
GEORGIA HOLT Farmers are always conservative. They stick to what they have learned from their fathers and from th...
HELMUT SCHMIDT If we are to give working mothers, fathers and their children an opportunity to live the American dr...
BLANCHE LINCOLN We have great service for the demand that we have and for them to work with us in the way that they ...
BARBARA GANN I am a mother and mothers don’t have the luxury of falling apart in front of their children, even ...
KRISTIN HANNAH Not everyone has the time to be normal.
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GARY KENDALL What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sor...
HENRIK IBSEN What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all s...
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JOHN HICKENLOOPER Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams...
OG MANDINO Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are slee...
JAMAICA KINCAID I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like...
GERHARD RICHTER It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their ...
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GARY F EVANS... They believe they must provide the discipline to their children, and they have a need to be respecte...
CINDY CHU Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilt...
CAMILLE PAGLIA There are men whose idea of life is tactic, who long for its continuation after death only because o...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER These folks make the biggest difference here in our school, ... They give the children that need it ...
JERRY GREEN Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the thin...
ROSALEEN DICKSON Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forge...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them ...
AGATHA CHRISTIE Bob, the taxpayers thank you, ... A lot of families heretofore on welfare, as fathers and mothers wi...
GEORGE ALLEN But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you beca...
D.H. LAWRENCE They're licking their lips and arching their back for the camera because they can, and they have no ...
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DAVE BLOOM If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?
PAUL BLOOM There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proporti...
ORLANDO BLOOM Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
ORLANDO BLOOM I am interested in the gaps between one piece of sidewalk and the next. I am interested in the thing...
AMY BLOOM I think his modus operandi has evolved into, you can just try to do the best you can every single da...
LARRY BLOOM I have my own show at 28 and a Golden Globe. So, yes, I face rejection, but I've also been very ...
RACHEL BLOOM I think a film set is a quite controlled environment and you feel like you can trust them and it is ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Generally speaking, we get the joke. We know that the free market is nonsense. We know that the whol...
RON BLOOM Obviously, this is a continuation of dollar woes.
DAVID BLOOM I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone...
ORLANDO BLOOM It really isn't about winning the medal for me.
JEREMY BLOOM I'll have a week to put the cleats on and get ready. Is a week enough? I don't see why not. I've bee...
JEREMY BLOOM I'm humbled to be here, and I'm very excited. The sport of football has been a huge passion of mine ...
JEREMY BLOOM Well, this is America, so obviously football is the Big Daddy in this country. It gets the most atte...
JEREMY BLOOM Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky,...
PAUL BLOOM I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
ORLANDO BLOOM Being referred to as a hunk or a heartthrob makes me nervous, but it's flattering. But I'm m...
ORLANDO BLOOM If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; ...
AMY BLOOM The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you ha...
RACHEL BLOOM When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
ORLANDO BLOOM Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have ...
PAUL BLOOM Whenever you see shrinks on television, they're so clearly written by patients. They're eith...
AMY BLOOM