My Top 10 Favorite Quotes on Parenting and Children
May 19th 2009 12:40
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank
"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body." - Elizabeth Stone
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." - Hodding Carter
"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." - Rachel Carson
"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." - Anonymous
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." - John W. Whitehead
"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." - M. Grundler
"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires" - Marceline Cox
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." - Lady Bird Johnson
"Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you." - Daniel Raeburn
"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking outside your body." - Elizabeth Stone
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." - Hodding Carter
"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." - Rachel Carson
"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." - Anonymous
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." - John W. Whitehead
"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." - M. Grundler
"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires" - Marceline Cox
"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." - Lady Bird Johnson
"Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you." - Daniel Raeburn
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