Parenting Quotes - Page 28

• Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Family, Marriage

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.44, Open Road Media

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• Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime.

  Red Skelton

  Funny, Running, Laughter

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• Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Inspirational, Mom, Mother

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Strength, Educational, Teaching

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2016

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Witty, Baby

  "The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"by R. Byrne, (p. 94), 2003.

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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• 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.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Children, Passion, Patriotic

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• Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Pregnancy, Moving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

  James Truslow Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  James Truslow Adams (1930). “A Searchlight on America”, London : Routledge

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

  Confucius

  Education, Wise, Clever

  Confucius (2014). “Confucian Analects”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, People

  Bill Cosby (2002). “Bill Cosby on Fatherhood”, p.56, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Sam Levenson

  Inspirational, Family, Children

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• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

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• A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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• Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

  Brené Brown

  Courage, Empathy, Weakness

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.39, Penguin

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• Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.

  Krister Stendahl

  Education, Thinking, Vision

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