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Family

«Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be»
«By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.»
Author: Charles Wadsworth | About: Family | Keywords: Father Time, His father, realizes, Son
«Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers»
«Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires»
«Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.»
Author: Matt Groening (Cartoonist) | About: Family, Love | Keywords: families, overcoming, torture
«Children learn to smile from their parents.»
«Diogenes struck the father when the son swore»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Family | Keywords: Diogenes, struck, swore, the Son
«Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.»
Author: Bill Cosby (Actor, Comedian, Producer) | About: Family
«Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.»
Author: Richard Bach (Writer) | About: Children, Family, Parents | Keywords: ours
«Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.»

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