From page 42-43 of the Thera and Bodhi anthology of the Anguttara Nikaya, the Numberical Discourses of the Buddha:
"...there are two persons one can never repay. What two? One's mother and father."
He goes on to suggest that if you carried them on your back for 100 years, that would not pay them back. Then he says:
"Parents do much for their children: they bring them up, feed them and guide them through this world."
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