Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study.
Be a student so long as you still have something to learn,
and this will mean all your life.
--Henry Doherty (1870 - 1939)
Our children are watching us live, and what we
ARE shouts louder than anything we can say.
--Wilferd A. Peterson
Children are the sum of what mothers contribute to their lives.
--Unknown
Our earth is degenerate in these latter days;
bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents;
and the end of the world is evidently approaching.
--Assyrian clay tablet 2800 B.C.
The best inheritance a person can give to his
children is a few minutes of his time each day
--O. A. Battista
Children have more need of models, than of critics.
--Joseph Joubert
Children need your presence more than your presents.
--Jesse Jackson
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's really no point in having children if you're not
going to be home enough to be a father to them.
--Anthony Edwards
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
--Muriel Spark
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
Adults are obsolete children.
--Dr. Seuss [Theodor Seuss Geisel] (03/02/1904-1991)
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children
of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
--Napoleon Hill motivational author
Child rearing myth #1: Labor ends when the baby is born.
--Unknown
If there were no schools to take the children away from home
part of the time, the insane asylum would be filled with mothers.
--Edgar Watson Howe
If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their
lives together. If you talk to them skillfully,
you can help them to build future dreams.
--Jim Rohn
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.
--Anonymous
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters
of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
--Kahlil Gibran
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have,
for instance.
--Franklin P. Adams American journalist
In raising my children, I have lost my mind but found my soul.
--Lisa T. Shepherd
What greater pain could mortals have than this:
To see their children dead before their eyes?
--Euripedes
It is a wise father that knows his own child
--William Shakespeare
Children have never been very good at listening to
adults but they have never failed to imitate them.
--James Baldwyn
Only those in the last stage of disease could believe
that children are true judges of character.
--W. H. Auden
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
--Red Buttons
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either
--Dick Cavett
Good parents give their children Roots and Wings.
Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away
and exercise what's been taught them.
--Jonas Salk
All kids need is a little help, a little hope and
somebody who believes in them.
--Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat
word for word what you shouldn't have said.
--Unknown
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