„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

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„Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.“
— C.G. Jung
„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