"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
"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
"In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." ~~ Ann Landers
"Wisdom is good if parental virtues go with it." ~~ Ecclesiastes R.
"In disputes between parents and children, the children always get the upper hand." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Obeying from love is better than to obey from fear." ~~ Rashi
"Whether you have money or not, you should respect your father and mother— even if you have to go begging from door to door." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Peah
"Bring up a child in the way he should go, and, when he is old, he will not depart from it. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 22:6
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