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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

— Anatole Broyard

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

— Ezra Taft Benson

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.

— Ja Rule

I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves. Break the cycle.

— Ja Rule

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

— Anne Sullivan

Obedience is the fruit of faith.

— Christina Rossetti

To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

— John Nelson Darby

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

— Emmylou Harris

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

— Margaret Mitchell

Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.

— Sam Levenson

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

— Aeschylus

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