"Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word “collectible” as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"I make decisions for my life, not the other way around. Besides, when you have a kid, you must weigh everything against time with your child." ~~ Debra Winger
"Don’t threaten a child: either punish him or forgive him." ~~ Talmud
"It is easier to have children than to raise them." ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 22:6
"Who circumcises his son is as though he offered all the sacrifices to the Lord." ~~ Zohar, Genesis
"We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. " ~~ Phyllis Diller
"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. " ~~ Phyllis Diller
"I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live. " ~~ Deuteronomy (Devarim) 30:19
"Let a father wed his daughter to a scholar, even if he spend all his money on her dowry!" ~~ Tanna Deve Eliyahu R.
"At five, your son is your master; at ten, your slave; at fifteen, your double; and after that, he is your friend or foe—depending on how you raised him." ~~ [Based on] Proverbs (Mishle) 13:24
"O that I had died instead of thee! O Absalom my son, my son! [King David] " ~~ Second Samuel (Shmuel 2) 19:1
"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. " ~~ Anne Frank