The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother. Elinor Smith More Quotes by Elinor Smith More Quotes From Elinor Smith All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent Elinor Smith heredity-and-environment parent children It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Elinor Smith things-happen success long people