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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
?UnattributedOften credited to Mark Twain
- Youth
The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.
Ring Lardner1885–1933
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosbyborn 1937
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Fate
- Men
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won’t let me plug it in.
Henny Youngman1906–1998
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too.
POP. J. O'Rourke1947–2022
No government can love a child, and no policy can substitute for a family’s care.
Hillary Clintonborn 1947
- Government
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead1901–1978Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap (1970), p. 72
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
Robert Frost1874–1963The Death of the Hired Man (1914), North of Boston (1914)In context
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bachborn 1936Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (1596–7), Act II, scene ii.In context
- Children