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~ Children are poor men's riches. ~ English Proverb
~ You will always be your child's favorite toy.~ Vicki Lansky ~ Children are our most valuable natural resource. ~ Herbert Hoover ~ What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give. ~ P.D. James ~ He who teaches children learns more than they do. ~ German Proverb ~ A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~ Anonymous ~ Children have but little charity for one another's defects. ~ Mark Twain ~ Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~ Harold Hulbert ~ The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents. ~ John J. Plomp ~ Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. ~ Robert A. Heinlein ~ People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. ~ Mary McCarthy ~ There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~ Chinese Proverb ~ Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~ The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher. ~ Robert Brault ~ Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. ~ Laura Schlessinger ~ Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ~ Roger Lewin ~ To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.~ Josh Billings ~ Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find? ~ Samuel Johnson ~ It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it. ~ Robert Brault ~ Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. ~ Charles R. Swindoll ~ Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.~ Marcelene Cox ~ Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet. ~ Robert Brault ~ Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive. ~ Ogden Nash ~ Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~ Robert Fulghum ~ The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. ~ M. Grundler ~ There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. ~ Walt Streightiff ~ Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry. ~ Democritus ~ There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. ~ Robert Brault ~ The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. ~ Mark Twain ~ There is not so much comfort in the having of children as there is sorrow in parting with them. ~ Thomas Fuller ~ The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. ~ Lane Olinghouse ~ There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~ Hodding Carter, Jr. ~ Juvenile delinquency would disappear if kids followed their parent's advice instead of their example. ~ Anonymous ~ The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. ~ Edward, Duke of Windsor ~ If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. ~ Abigail Van Buren ~ Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. ~ Sigmund Freud ~ Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. ~ Rudyard Kipling ~ Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. ~ Roger Rosenblatt ~ The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. ~ Joan Kerr ~ A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. ~ Thomas S. Szasz ~ The trouble with having a stubbornness contest with your kids is that they have your stubbornness gene. ~ Robert Brault ~ Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. ~ John Wilmot ~ Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. ~ Frank A. Clark ~ Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. ~ Richard L. Evans ~ As parents, we guide by our unspoken example. It is only when we're talking to them that our kids aren't listening. ~ Robert Brault ~ A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters. ~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough. ~ E.W. Howe ~ What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.~ Sigmund Freud ~ If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.~ Mignon McLaughlin ~ Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~ Elizabeth Stone ~ You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. ~ P. J. O'Rourke ~ There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. ~ George Bernard Shaw |
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~ The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. ~ W. H. Auden
~ A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad. ~ John Andrew Holmes
~ A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad. ~ John Andrew Holmes