Teach to respect, honor and love the human individuality, educate young people to respect their elders, at least their own parents, and cemeteries will beautify themselves.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
—Oscar Wilde
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
—Cicero
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
—Aristotle
Wealth, and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
—Plato
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
—Plato
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
—Cicero
Those persons who have God for their Father have a Father who loves them much more than any earthly parent loves his child.
—Jonathan Edwards
God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour.
—John Locke
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.
—John Locke