Parenting Quotes - Page 21

• All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

  Robertson Davies

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

  Nancy Friday

  Relationship, Mom, Mother Daughter

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• Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Mom, Mother

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• The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Separation, Should

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• You may have tangible wealth untold:
  Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  Richer than I you can never be
  I had a Mother who read to me.

  Strickland Gillilan

  Mothers Day, Mom, Reading

  Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

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• It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

  Virginia Satir

  Children, Nice, Romance

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

  Benjamin Spock

  Baby, Children, Learning

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• If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

  Jane Clayson Johnson

  Children, Character, Opportunity

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• The true test of a person's character is how they treat the people in life that they don't need.

  Lee Corso

  Character, People, Needs

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• In achieving the depersonalization of childbirth and at the same time solving the problem of pain, our society may have lost more than it has gained. We are left with the physical husk; the transcending significance has been drained away.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Pain, May, Our Society

  Sheila Kitzinger (1978). “Women as mothers”

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• Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my "plan" was for taking down the Christmas tree.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Husband, Book

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

  Beverley Jones

  Funny, Family, Mom

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• ~Before, my career came first. All I had to think about was myself. Now my children prevail. It doesn't mean my career is less important; I just have to position things differently.~

  Faith Hill

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

  Guy Lombardo

  Daughter, Fathers Day, Strong

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• No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

  Amy Leslie

  Mom, Baby, Animal

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• A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Motivational, Baby

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

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• Always obey your parents - when they are present.

  Mark Twain

  Children, Humorous, Parent

  Mark Twain, Gregg Camfield, Sally Wern Comport (2005). “Mark Twain”, p.31, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

  Abraham Kaplan

  Children, Humorous, Boys

  Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.28, Transaction Publishers

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• People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry.

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Children, Humorous

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• The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forebearance among men.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Children, Humorous

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• Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on a smaller scale and lacks the advantage of having made enormous soft-money campaign contributions to political candidates.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Children, Humorous, Kids

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.722, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Humorous, Youth

  C. S. Lewis (1992). “An Experiment in Criticism”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human being to repeat what is learned without experiencing it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Education, Causes, Inquiry

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2005). “Life Ahead: On Learning and the Search for Meaning”, p.9, New World Library

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• If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, Mean

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• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Education, Responsibility, Maturity

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