"There is one thing a man cannot change—his parents." ~~ David Ben-Gurion
"A woman is worthier after she has become a mother than before." ~~ Talmud, Bava Qamma
"Great is the pain of bringing up sons, and greater of bringing up daughters." ~~ Shalom Aleichem
"There are three teachers: parents, instructors, and comrades." ~~ Sefer Hasidim
"Whether you have money or not, you should respect your father and mother— even if you have to go begging from door to door." ~~ Talmud Yerushalmi, Peah
"Bring up a child in the way he should go, and, when he is old, he will not depart from it. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 22:6
"I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I’ve done my job." ~~ Roseanne Barr
"Who takes a wife late leaves orphans early. " ~~ Mishle Yehoshua
"Despise not your mother, when she is old!" ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 23:22
"Do not boast of your children when they are little, because you never know what they will be like when grown-up! " ~~ Mishle Agur
"A childless man is as good as dead." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim
"Little children are a headache and big ones a heartache." ~~ Chananya Reichman