“[Impersonating Celine) "Zis next song iz for all ze parents in zer audience, and also zer children"…(looks puzzled)…. that's just everybody, right?”

“We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.”

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991) Polish-born Jewish-American author

“If the slavery of the parents be unjust, much more is their children's; if the parents were justly slaves, yet the children are born free; this is the natural, perfect right of all mankind; they are nothing but a just recompense to those who bring them up: And as much less is commonly spent on them than others, they have a right, in justice, to be proportionably sooner free.”

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) English and American political activist

“Parents always make their worst mistakes with their oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.”

Orson Scott Card book Xenocide

“All people respect and love their own parents and children, as well as the parents and children of others.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

“In my view, a right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children is among the 'unalienable Rights' with which the Declaration of Independence proclaims 'all Men... are endowed by their Creator.”

Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

“Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“If the Pilgrims were looking for freedom of conscience, they came to just the right place. In America, everybody's conscience is unusually free.”

Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer

“All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.”

Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer