Quotes of Progenitor - somelinesforyou

“ Do well and you will have no need for ancestors. ”

- Voltaire

“ The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it. ”

- Tad Williams

“ I read a lot. And both of my parents, I think, would have wanted to be writers. It's funny how one ends up doing the things that-that parents-perhaps, the dreams that parents couldn't fulfill. I know that my mother would have been beyond herself to have had a story published in The New Yorker. ”

- Alma Guillermoprieto

“ Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it. ”

- Grant Hill

“ Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them. ”

- Russell Baker

“ You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back. ”

- William D. Tammeus

“ Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers. ”

- Moo hyum Roh

“ No parent is there forever. So I won't be here forever with these kids. ”

- Anthony Quinn

“ The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Next to God, thy parents. ”

- William Penn

“ In Boston they ask, "How much does he know?" In New York, "How much is he worth?" In Philadelphia, "Who were his parents?". ”

- Mark Twain

“ Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have. ”

- Unknown

“ The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have. ”

- Unknown

“ Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ”

- Haim Ginott
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