“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

— Oscar Wilde , book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mrs. Arbuthnot http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Children+begin+by+loving+their+parents+after+a+time%22+%22they+judge+them+rarely+if+ever+do+they+forgive+them%22&pg=PA187#v=onepage, Act IV
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Variant: Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

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“In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

Mornings in Florence, part III, section 49 (1875).

“Has it ever occurred to you…that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?”

Stephen King book Christine

Pt. 1, Ch. 3
Christine (1983)

“Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

“[On entitlements:] I think we've got to go after them root and branch…if we're ever gonna do it, this is the time to do it.”

John R. Bolton (1948) American lawyer and diplomat

"The Man with the Mustache"

“Parents: If you encounter teenagers who say they liked this movie, do not let them date your children.”

Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter

Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/resident-evil-apocalypse-2004 of Resident Evil: Apocalypse (10 September 2004)
Reviews, Half-star reviews

“The pro-life Republicans drop the children at birth and do nothing for them after that.”

Bob Casey Sr. (1932–2000) American politician (1932-2000)

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“Children go to school because their parents don't want them in the house.”

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II

Source: Prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013.

“In general, those who govern children forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.”

François Fénelon (1651–1715) Catholic bishop

D'ordinaire, ceux qui gouvernent les enfants ne leur pardonnent rien, et se pardonnent tout à eux-mêmes.
Traité de l'éducation des filles, ch. 5, cited from De l'éducation des filles, dialogues des morts et opuscules divers (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1857) p. 15; translation from Selections from the Writings of Fénelon (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829) p. 137. (1687).

“You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Source: Adverbs

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