Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Parents Quotes
The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.
Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.
I was born rich. Not in tangible things, but rich in the parents I had.
If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
I invented Edna because I hated her. She was a silly ignorant, self-satisfied housewife. I suppose one grows up with a desire to murder one’s parents, but you can’t really do that. So I suppose I tried to murder them symbolically on stage. I poured out my hatred of the little people of their generation.
The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!