Famous quotes containing the words important and/or role:
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“In today’s world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither time nor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)