Best family & children-and-parents Quotes

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”

“Every articulate family ... generates its own stories, explanations and myths to illuminate the differences in temperament and talent among its children, the lines of allegiance and influence between parent and child.”

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Book:Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties

“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.”

Source: At Home in the World: A Memoir

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.”

Source: Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh

“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.”

“If a child is to keep alive 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.”

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Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.”

“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be”

“It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it”

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Author:Robert Breault

“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.”

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Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.”

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Author:Frank A. Clark

“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

“In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.”

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Book:An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties

Source: An age of enormity: life and writing in the forties and fifties

“Simply having children does not make mothers.”

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Author:John G. Shedd

“Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.”

“We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“The world is nothing but a school of love; our relationships with our husband or wife, with our children and parents, with our friends and relatives are the university in which we are meant to learn what love and devotion truly are.”

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Author:Swami Muktananda

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