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Quotations about parents

J.K. RowlingThere is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

 - J.K. Rowling

Tags:   parents  responsibility  

Horace It is of no consequence of what parents any man is born, so that he be a man of merit.

 - Horace

Tags:   class  merit  parents  

Mark TwainWhen I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

 - Mark Twain

Tags:   adolescence  fathers  maturity  parents