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"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."

Voltaire on Parenting

More quotes about Parenting

  • "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

    Buddha on Parenting

  • "A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

    Billy Graham on Parenting

  • "We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

    Henry Ward Beecher on Parenting

  • "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

    Sigmund Freud on Parenting

  • "Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."

    Ron Taffel on Parenting

More quotes by Voltaire

  • "What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy."

  • "He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."

  • "We are rarely proud when we are alone."

  • "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."

  • "Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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