"Save you honor your parents, your children will not honor you." ~~ Rambam
"A father suffers for the troubles of his son." ~~ Midrash Sekhel Tov
"A pretty daughter is worth half the dowry." ~~ Shalom Aleichem
"As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"The child honors his mother more than his father because his mother affects him by her words—so God set the honoring of the father before the honoring of the mother; and the child fears his father more than his mother, because it is the father who teaches him Torah—so God set the fearing of the mother before the fearing of the father." ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin 31a
"The hearts of the parents will return though their children." ~~ Malachi 3:24
"Our sages recommended that a father should spend less than his means on food, up to his means on dress, and beyond his means for his wife and children." ~~ Maimonides
"Educate the youngster according to his way, then, even when he grows old, he shall not depart from it." ~~ Proverbs 22:6
"Whoever teachs his son teaches not only his son but also his son’s son—and so on to the end of generations. " ~~ Talmud, Kiddushin
"The world exists only because of the innocent breath of schoolchildren." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Honor your father – – – even if you have to go begging from door to door. " ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Peah
"My mother loved children — she would have given anything if I had been one. " ~~ Groucho Marx