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  • Bette Davis If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Mohsin Hamid In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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  • Don Marquis In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Trollope It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Adam Baldwin It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
    Adam Baldwin
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Blair Underwood It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned the parent.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • B. D. Wong Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Brad Meltzer My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • C. K. Williams One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Bob Keeshan Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Aristotle Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Cal Thomas Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
    The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Adam Ferguson The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species.
    An Essay on the History of Civil Society I,I
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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