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"Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them."
~ Author Unknown
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"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."
- Roy L. Smith
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"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses."
~ Joyce Brothers
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"If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct."
~ Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family."
~ Anthony Brandt
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"Children are the only form of immortality that we
can be sure of."
- Peter Ustinov
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"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."
- Elain Heffner
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"There is nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people."
- HR Schaffer
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"Life, love, and laughter -- what priceless gifts to give our children."
- Phyllis Dryden
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"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
- Charles R. Swindoll
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"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."
- Harry Edwards
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"If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart."
- Mother Clara Hale
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"Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them."
- Lady Bird Johnson
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"An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments
in time."
- Doc Childre
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"Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow."
- Thomas Bray
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"If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world
we live in."
- Rachel Carson
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"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
- Harry S Truman
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"Your children need your presence more than your presents."
- Jesse Jackson
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"We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching."
- Roy L. Smith
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"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
- Clarence Budinton Kelland
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"Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults."
- MAD Magazine
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"There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in."
- Graham Green
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"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
- Martin Mull
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"You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers."
- John Plomp
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"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it."
- Margaret Fuller
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"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."
- Unknown
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
- Hodding Carter
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"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant."
- Jane Sellman
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"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
- Phyllis Diller
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"Laughter is like changing a baby's diaper. It doesn't permanently solve any problems, but it makes things more acceptable for a while"
- Unknown
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"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
- Franklin P. Jones
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"Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Invest in the future; have a child and teach her well."
- Unknown
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"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love
and duty."
- George Eliot Romola
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
- James Baldwin
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"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it."
- Harold Hulbert
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"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
- Frederick Douglas
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"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home."
- Bill Cosby
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"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
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"Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve."
- Roger Lewin
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"The important thing is the family."
-Walt Disney
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"Happy is he that is happy in his children."
-T. Fuller
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"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."
-D.C. Fisher
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"Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes to drain
it dry."
-Alvin Price
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"When a child is allowed to do absolutely as he pleases, it will not be long until nothing pleases him."
-Anonymous
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"A BABY IS...someone just the size of a hug."
-Anonymous
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" The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
T.M. Hesburg
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"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 |
"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
~ Robert Fulghum
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"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
~ Abigail Van Buren
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"The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable."
~ Lane Olinghouse
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"Children have more need of models than of critics."
~ Carolyn Coats
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"My mom used to say it doesn't matter how many kids you have... because one kid'll take up 100% of your time so more kids can't possibly take up more than 100% of your time."
~ Karen Brown
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"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."
~Charles R. Swindoll
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"What a child doesn't receive he can seldom
later give."
~ P.D. James
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"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them
to others."
~ Haim Ginott
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"Kids spell love
T-I-M-E."
~ John Crudele
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"Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them."
~ Author Unknown
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"The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent."
~ Frank Pittman
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"The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering."
~ Benjamin Spock
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"When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out."
~ Erma Bombeck
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"The one thing children wear out faster than
shoes is parents."
~ John J. Plomp
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"Parenthood is a lot easier to get into than out of."
~ Bruce Lansky
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"Instant availability without continuous presence is probably
the best role a mother can play."
~ Lotte Bailyn
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"A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad."
~ John Andrew Holmes
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"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."
~ Frank A. Clark
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"The trouble with being a parent is that by the time you are experienced, you are unemployed."
~ Author Unknown
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"In bringing up children, spend on them half as much money and twice as much time."
~ Author Unknown
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"What's done to children, they will do to society."
~ Karl Menninger
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"A mother's children are portraits of herself."
- Unknown
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"A mother's singing, however poor, is far better for her baby than the best of records."
- AC Harwood
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"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."
- Florida Scott Maxwell
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"A mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among ten children and each child still have all her love."
- Unknown
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"A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character."
- Mrs. H. O. Ward
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"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie."
- Tenneva Jordan
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"At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent."
- Golda Meir
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"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."
- Alice Walker
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"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love."
- Mildred B. Vermont
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"Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate."
- Charlotte Gray
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"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
- Meryl Streep
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"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them."
- Frank A. Clark
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"All children behave as well
as they are treated."
- Anonymous
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"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation."
- C. Everett Koop
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"Whoever said it first spoke with insight and wisdom: you don't own children, you only borrow them."
- Anne Linn
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"To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."
- Anonymous
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"Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be."
- David Bly
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"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for."
- Anonymous
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"The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children."
- Elaine Heffner
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"Parents have the glorious opportunity of being the most powerful influence, above and beyond any other, on the new lives that bless their homes."
- L. Tom Perry
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"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
- Franklin P. Jones
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"Being a mother isn't simply a matter of having children. To think that is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician."
- Sydney Harris
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"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
~ Stacia Tauscher
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"A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often."
~ Author Unknown
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"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."
~ Author Unknown
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"Children make you want to start
life over."
~ Muhammad Ali
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"An aware parent loves all children he or she meets and interacts with-for you are a caretaker for those moments
in time."
- Doc Childre
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"If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
- Rachel Carson
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