Parenting Quotes - Page 5

• Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Mom, Funny Inspirational, Children

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• The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

  Susanna Wesley

  Children, Home, Men

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• The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

  Jean Kerr

  Children, Real, Humorous

  Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”

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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

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

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• Presence is more than just being there.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Funny Relationship, Focus, Romance

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Arrows, Archery

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Encourage & support your kids because "Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Children, Believe, Kids

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• The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Mistake, Lying

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No...Unfortunately, many, if not most, of today's children suffer from Vitamin N deficiency. They've been overindulged by well-meaning parents who've given them far too much of what they want and far too little of what they truly need.

  John Rosemond

  Children, Character, Two

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• It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Children, Father, Love Is

  Abraham Lincoln, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1950). “The Lincoln treasury”

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• Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

  Miriam Makeba

  Girl, Mother, Focus

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• Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

  Liam Neeson

  Inspiring, Time, Growing Up

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Children, Giving

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Everything depends on upbringing.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspire, Depends, Upbringing

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.42, Vintage

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• To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophical, Learning

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• There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Effort, World

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.110, Ballantine Books

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• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  Ed Asner

  Funny, Thank You, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Family, God

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.275, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Motivational, Family, Success

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• Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

  Harvey Kurtzman

  Baby, Children, Teenager

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• Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

  Terence

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

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• ~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a struggle for me to back off and let my children go through difficult experiences.~

  Nicole Kidman

  Children, Pain, Struggle

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• Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Kids, Criticism

  "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

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• Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

  C. Everett Koop

  Love, Teacher, Children

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• What's done to children, they will do to society.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Love, Family, Happiness

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

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