Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
Samuel Butler – Parenthood
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 – Parenthood
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw – Parenthood
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher – Parenthood
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle – Education, Parenthood
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Parenthood
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don’t fulfill the promise of their early years.
Anthony Powell – Parenthood
I don’t know much about my birth parents but there were significant differences between their backgrounds and those of my adoptive parents. It made no difference to me.
