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Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature.”

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Book:Walt Disney: Conversations

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil...”

“Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.”

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Author:James Gandolfini

“Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time.”

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Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

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Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”

“It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.”

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

“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?”

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Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.”

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.”

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Author:Fred Astaire

“I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.”

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Author:John Lennon

“If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.”

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Author:John Lennon

“I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.”

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Author:John Lennon

“Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.”

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Author:John Lennon

“The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up.”

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Author:John Lennon

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

“The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.”

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Book:Leaving the Surface

Source: Leaving the Surface

“For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“A child needs both to be hugged and unhugged. The hug lets her know she is valuable. The unhug lets her know that she is viable. If you're always shoving your child away, they will cling to you for love. If you're always holding them closer, they will cling to you for fear.”

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Book:Gently lead, or, How to teach your children about God while finding out for yourself

Source: Gently lead, or, How to teach your children about God while finding out for yourself

“The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.”

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Book:Whole child, whole parent

Source: Whole child, whole parent

“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”

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Book:Sketches and Essays

Source: Sketches and Essays

“It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.”

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Author:Patricia Heaton

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.”

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Author:Terence

“Where will our country find leaders with integrity, courage, strength-all the family values-in ten, twenty, or thirty years? The answer is that you are teaching them, loving them, and raising them right now.”

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Author:Barbara Bush

“It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.”

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Author:Erik Erikson

“(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.”

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Author:James Thurber

“I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.”

“I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.”

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Author:Whitney Houston

“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.”

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Author:E. W. Howe

“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.”

“Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.”

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Author:Hugh Jackman

“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.”

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.”

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Book:Time to Be in Earnest

Source: Time to Be in Earnest

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.”

“I know it is hard for you young mothers to believe that almost before you can turn around the children will be gone and you will be alone with your husband. You had better be sure you are developing the kind of love and friendship that will be delightful and enduring. Let the children learn from your attitude that he is important. Encourage him. Be kind. It is a rough world, and he, like everyone else, is fighting to survive. Be cheerful. Don't be a whiner”

“The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.”

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Author:Theognis of Megara

“Children need models rather than critics.”

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Author:Joseph Joubert

“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”

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Book:Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis

Source: Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis

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