Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato

We are the people our parents warned us about.
Jimmy Buffett

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Pope John Paul II

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Ephesians 6:1-3 (KJV)

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher

I learned the way a monkey learns -- by watching its parents.
King Charles III

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
Michael Jordan

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.
Chelsea Handler

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the street.
Yogi Berra

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.
Horace

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Judy Blume

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
Oprah Winfrey

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Dick Cavett

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