Your Children Quotes

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

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Nice, Self Esteem

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• Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be

  David Bly

  Family, Inspiring, Success

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• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  Sam Levenson

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.83, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

  Bruce Barton

  Relationship, Birthday, Daughter

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• The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  Harry S. Truman

  Funny, Leadership, Witty

  Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955

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• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Good Night, Baby

  "Fictional character: Jennifer Jareau". "Criminal Minds" ("Boxed In", Season 10, Episode 5), October 29, 2014.

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Mom, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2009

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

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

  Jesse Jackson

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

  Bette Davis

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• It is one thing to show your child the way, and a harder thing to then stand out of it

  Robert Breault

  Family, Children, Parenting

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Arrows

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

  William Feather

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• 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.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Summer, Children, Flower

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.56

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• That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

  Ursula Hegi

  Children, Love You, Unrequited Love

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• Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Time, Children, Years

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.41, BookBaby

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• Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mom, Witty, Funny Inspirational

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.81, Penguin

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• Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Life, Children, Humorous

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Oct 04, 2010

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• You will always be your child's favorite toy.

  Vicki Lansky

  Mom, Children, Parent

  "Trouble-free Travel with Children: Helpful Hints for Parents on the Go". Book by Vicki Lansky, 1991.

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• If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Children, Blessed

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.10, BookBaby

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

  Mother Teresa

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.

  Joey Adams

  Children, Parent, Advice

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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