1,263 Quotes About Parents




  • Author E.M. Forster
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    For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and—by some sad, strange irony—it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

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  • Author John Updike
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    Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other members of the human race, rather disappointingly.

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  • Author Jonathan Safran Foer
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    I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

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