Quotes about Parents

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Dame Edna Everage	My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what motive can make a father cruel?
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	The regal and parental tyrant differ only in the extent of their dominions.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784)	Poor people's children, dear Lady never respect them: I did not respect my own mother, though I loved her: and one day, when in anger she called me a puppy, I asked her if she knew what they call a puppy's mother.
Greg Norman	I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. - (pro golfer)
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)	My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Jules Feiffer	I grew up to have my father's looks -- my father's speech patterns -- my father's posture -- my father's walk -- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)	My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Ogden Nash	Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Paula Poundstone	My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim."
Rita Rudner	My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)	The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Woody Allen (1935 - )	When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

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