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“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”

Children Happiness Virtue Gold Your Children Vice And Virtue

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.”

Ifs Giving Children Book Real Parent Enjoy Independence Library Cards Your Children Neighborhood Introducing Borrowing Library Cards

Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.”

Way Children Age Responsibility Teach Your Children Voting Civics Civic Responsibility

Author:Christine Pelosi

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

“After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.”

Mind Children Ends Lasts Directors Casts Producers Breathing Your Children The End Of The Day Mates

Author:John Ratzenberger

“Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.”

Children Memories Tradition Forgotten Your Children Vacation Family Vacation

Book:Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice

Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice

“Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.”

Children School Father Games Differences Son Goes On Dad Daughter Program Balls Your Children Daddy Picnics Father And Son Ball Games Recitals

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.”

Children Art Home Spirit Literature Forever Your Children Bless Refinement Home Home

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.”

Thinking Children Soul Pain Your Children Right Thing Soul Searching Doing The Right Thing

Author:Diane Abbott

“When I hear people talk about juggling or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy because sacrifice infers that there was something better to do than the thing - than being with your children.”

People Looks Children Sacrifice Crazy Your Children Something Better Juggling

Author:Chris Rock

“Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.”

Children Influence Your Children Family Values Transcendentalism

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.”

Children Dream Community Achieve Security Succeed Forgotten Your Children Stability American Dream Better Off Free Market Hispanic

Author:Marco Rubio

“To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.”

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Book:Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition

Source: Time and Tide, by Weare and Tyne. Twenty-five letters to a Working Man of Sunderland (Thomas Dixon) on the laws of work ... Second edition

“Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.”

Ifs Children Dies Flower Summer Your Children Thank God Loan August Borrowed Withering

Book:Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters

Source: Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters

“If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Want Children Asks Teach Taste Miracle Oppression Your Children Free Society

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.”

Ifs Want Children Home Loses Powerful Teach Messages Remains Your Children Classroom Battlefields

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are also doing all of the housework and child care.”

Ifs Children Persons Home Care Careers Pressure Partners Your Children Right Person Housework Full Life Child Care

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“There are really good reasons to leave the workforce or work less or take a different job when you want to be with your children. I just want women - and men - to make that choice once they have the child. Not years in advance, because... they don't get the right opportunities. They give up before they even start.”

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Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.”

Children Home Bigs Mother Powerful Influence Scales Your Children Powerful Women

Author:Jill Scott

“Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.”

Children Jobs Your Children Description Mammals Caregivers

Author:Mayim Bialik

“If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.”

Ifs Children Parent Example Objects Lessons Your Children Warning

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.”

Thinking Want Children Hands Wonderful Example Your Children Parenthood Fulfilled Balancing Act

Author:Michael Sheen

“There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.”

Children Worst Method Driving Your Children Introducing

Author:Jane Smiley

“It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.”

Life Children Shows Live Life Your Children How To Live Life

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what’s important to them.”

Ifs Children Important Different Helping Might Achieve Beats Your Children March Drummer What's Important

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.”

Children Wanted Certain Wife Influence Lovers Your Children

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.”

Children Priorities Your Children

Author:Josh Turner

“Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.”

Children Responsibility Mom Caring Your Children

Book:From This Moment On

Source: From This Moment On

“I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Children Dies Perspective Fame Legacy Your Children

Author:Shania Twain

“Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.”

Children Father Names Calling Negative Tongue Your Children Girlfriend Bites Your Girlfriend Name Calling Negative Experiences

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.”

Source: Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

“There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.”

Needs Children Jobs Given Parent Realizing Your Children

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Is Valentine's Day a day to make cupcakes with your children? No, Valentine's is supposed to be a day about romantic love.”

Children Happiness Supposed To Be Your Children Romantic Love Valentine Valentine's Day Cupcakes

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.”

Mean Children Bigs Parent Responsibility Assuming Your Children Curves Grownups Assuming Responsibility

Book:Bachelor Girls

Source: Bachelor Girls

“You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.”

Way Children Perspective Deeper Your Children Perspective On Things

Author:Rachel Weisz

“One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.”

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Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.”

Wells Children Doe I Can Happens Kids Wonderful Highest Flight Your Children Compliment Crew

Author:Kate Winslet

“Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.”

Children Home Nice Your Children Being Nice Nursing Nursing Home

Author:Steven Wright

“Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.”

Trying Children Your Children Frustration

Author:Andrew Young

“It's OK to let your children see you cry.”

Children Cry Your Children God Never Blinks Valuable Life Lessons Important Life Lessons

Book:Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

“Celebrate your child's achievement, then rotate it when the next mini-masterpiece comes along. Then chuck the old picture. Don't worry that you're throwing away a memory. Your children will remember your praise more than they will remember the picture with macaroni and glitter glued on it.”

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Author:Niecy Nash

“You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.”

Children Law Discipline Your Children Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:Phil Robertson

“Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem”

Inspirational Writing Children Wisdom Inspiration Lasts Leadership Lines Sleep Green Your Children Sheep Pastures Green Pastures

Book:The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam

“Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”

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Author:Benjamin Franklin

“You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats.”

Children Curse Your Children Throat Castles Moats

Book:I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems

Source: I Shall Not Be Moved: Poems

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”

Source: Perfect Match

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.”