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“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”

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

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

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

“The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“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.”

“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”

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

“I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.”

“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.”

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

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”