Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.
– Emilie Buchwald
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- In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. – Herodotus
- More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- It is very sad to see children live like orphans while their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gugu Mona
- Today’s troubled homes are made by parents who want to have children but don’t want their children to have parents – Agona Apell
- Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do. – Billy Graham
- It is very sad to see children live like orphans whilst their parents are still alive. After all, children need the constant love of parents. – Gift Gugu Mona
- Our parents would not be -˜The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry Truman
- My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
- All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
- Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening. – Art Buchwald
- Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have. – Art Buchwald
- Is there a magical time when children become parents to their parents? – Ralph Webster
- Is there a magical age when children become parents to their parents? – Ralph Webster
- … sometimes love becomes a power game between ambitions that parents have for their children and the ambitions that children have for themselves. – Witi Ihimaera
- Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles. – Mary Lydon Simonsen
- Parents have no clue how many things they never teach their children. Their children are simply born with those things. – Kirtida Gautam
- It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill. – Emilie Autumn
- It is this, not the spirits, that frightens us; shall we never be free, even after we die? – Emilie Autumn
- History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever. – Emilie Autumn
- He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior. – Emilie Autumn
- Revenge itself may indeed be the best revenge, but slaying one’s enemy does not give back what they stole. – Emilie Autumn
- There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge. – Emilie Autumn
- Some are born mad, some achieve madness, and some have madness thrust upon ’em. – Emilie Autumn
- If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children’s books suddenly turn up very high on the list. – Laura Miller
- A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest. – CS Lewis
- I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. – Orson Scott Card
- The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust. – Richie Norton
- Self-esteem wasn’t the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal. – Julia A Boyd
- A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself. – Shahida Arabi
- I don’t think they’re terrible parents. They love us. I think they’re negligent parents. That’s not the same thing. – Justine Larbalestier
- Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster. – John Green
- Some of the things I hated my parents for when I was younger are the same things I love my parents for now that I’m older. – Steve Maraboli
- Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents. – Joseph Heller
- Some parents bring their children up and, I suppose, others let them down. – Stacey Lee
- Unsatisfied parents produce professionally successful but personally discontent children. – Himmilicious
- You can’t claim to care about the welfare of children if you’re shaming other parents for the choices they’re making. – Bren Brown
- If you do not have a close friendship with your children, I will.–Child Molester warning all parents from the book Type 1 Sociopath – PA Speers
- Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. – Phyllis Diller