"A child to hold and cuddle, 'tis a gift from God above. And the world is so much brighter, when you have a child to love." Source?
"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it." Frank A. Clark - Frank A. Clark (1911-1991) was the creator of The Country Parson, a series of one panel newspaper cartoons that appeared in The Des Moines Register and was syndicated by more than 200 newspapers. It ran from 1955 until his death in 1991.
"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie." Tenneva Jordan
"A mother understands what a child does not say." Jewish proverb
"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." Unknown
"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little." Pope John XXIII - Pope John XXIII born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (25 November 1881 – 3 June 1963) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in June 1963.
"Be careful not to forget the things you have seen God do for you. Keep reminding yourself and tell your children and grandchildren, too." Deuteronomy 4:9"But it isn't true to say we had no special advantages . . . the greatest thing in our favor was growing up in a family where there was always much encouragement to intellectual curiosity." Orville Wright of the Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited[1][2][3] with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane."Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. " Jess Lair
"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see." John W. Whitehead in The Stealing of America"Children have more need of models than of critics." Carolyn Coats, author, in Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear"Correction does much, but encouragement does more.'' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic, his works include plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and color."Encourage Your Boy - Do not wait for the boy to grow up before you begin to treat him as an equal. A proper amount of confidence, and the words of encouragement and advice . . . give him to understand that you trust him in many ways, helps to make a man of him long before he is a man in either stature or years . . . If a boy finds he can make a few articles with his hands, it tends to make him rely on himself. And the planning that is necessary for the execution of the work is a discipline and an education of great value to him." The American Architect and Building News
"Every adult needs a child to teach; it's the way adults learn."Frank A. Clark -(1911-1991) was the creator of The Country Parson, a series of one panel newspaper cartoons that appeared in The Des Moines Register and was syndicated by more than 200 newspapers. It ran from 1955 until his death in 1991.
"Every attempt, therefore, to flatter them, or to make more of them than they deserve, I shall do all I can to prevent, and to arm them against." 20th USA President James A. Garfield (Garfield adored his children, but he was resolved to save his children from being injured by his presidency.)
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own." Doug Larson - Doug Larson (February 10, 1926 – April 1, 2017) was a columnist and editor for the Door County Advocate (1953–1964) and wrote a daily column, "Doug’s Dugout," for the Green Bay Press-Gazette (1964–1988), both Wisconsin-based newspapers.
"For years afterward, whenever complimented about John Quincy and his role in national life, and the part he had played as father, Adams would say with emphasis, 'My son had a mother!'" This is excerpted from John Adams, by David McCullough.
"Hope I am not disappointing your first expectations. I owe you both more than I can ever repay, for being the best parents a soldier ever had. I could never begin to hank you enough for all of the opportunities you've both given me. You've never disappointed me in anything I ever wanted or asked for and I'm not too spoiled, am I? . . . I hate to say it, but I didn't realize fully how fortunate I was at home and how much having an education really meant to me until I joined the Army. . . I won't let you down. Here's a kiss for you, Mother, and a salute to you, Lt., from Pvt. Jr." Charles Haynes was featured in Fields of Battle by Brian Curtis as a football player from Duke University and an enlisted member of the Army who fought in WWII. This quote was in the great book, Fields of Battle by Brian Curtis.
"How unpardonable would it have been in you to have been a blockhead." Abigail Adams, November 22 [O.S. November 11] 1744 – October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams and the mother of John Quincy Adams.
"I always believe in showing affection by doing what will please the one we love, not be talking." Theodore Roosevelt Sr (He asked his children to improve their handwriting, learn to swim or memorize a Bible passage to show love for him.)
"I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men are moulded and inspired by what their fathers have done." 20th USA President James A. Garfield
"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." John Adams, (October 30 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the United States (1797–1801), the first Vice President (1789–1797) and as a Founding Father was a leader of American independence from Great Britain.
"I still live in and on the sunshine of my childhoo." Christian Morgenstern - Christian Otto Josef Wolfgang Morgenstern (6 May 1871 – 31 March 1914) was a German writer and poet from Munich.
"If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart." Mother Clara Hale - Clara MCBRIDE Hale (April 1, 1905 – December 18, 1992), also known as Mother Hale, was an American humanitarian who founded the Hale House Center, a home for disadvantaged children and children who were born addicted to drugs.
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money." Abigail Van Buren, (1918–2013), US journalist; born Pauline Esther Friedman. Author of the syndicated “Dear Abby” advice column from 1956, she competed with her twin sister, advice columnist Ann Landers.
"I’ll love you even when I don’t like you." Lace Harper, a character in Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon
"In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice." Charles Dickens, (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. This quote is from Great Expectations.
"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." Ann Landers, (1918–2002), US journalist; born Esther Pauline Friedman. Author of the syndicated “Ann Landers” advice column from 1955, she competed with her twin sister, Abigail Van Buren, who wrote a similar column (“Dear Abby”)
"Let us build memories in our children,
Lest they drag out joyless lives,
Lest they allow treasures to be lost, because they have not been given the keys.
We live, not by things, but by the meanings of things.
It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation."
Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as de Saint-Exupéry (29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and also won the United States National Book Award.
"Let us have ambition enough to keep our simplicity, our frugality, and our integrity, and transmit these virtues as the fairest of inheritance to our children." John Adams, (October 30 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American lawyer, author, statesman, and diplomat. He served as the second President of the United States (1797–1801), the first Vice President (1789–1797) and as a Founding Father was a leader of American independence from Great Britain.
"Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." Elizabeth Stone (Which Elizabeth Stone?)
"My daddy made _______ a bad name. I’m going to make _______ a good name." Spoken by Sammy Barlowe, a character in Come Rain or Come Shine by Jan Karon - (By inserting your last name in place of each of the lines you can make this quote work for you. You can Romans 8:28 any past bad history to turn around anything into a great thing in your life as you raise your family, mix with friends etc.)
"My father didn't tell me how to live he lived, and let me watch him do it." Clarence Budlington Kelland (July 11, 1881 – February 18, 1964) was an American writer. Prolific and versatile, he was a prominent literary figure in his heyday, and he described himself as "the best second-rate writer in America"."My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night." Clare - age 6
"No matter how big a child is, he cannot deny that he was once carried on the back of a woman." African Proverb
"No one knows whose womb holds the chief!" African Proverb shared on a newsletter about Michael and Kay Johnson of Miriam Medical Clinic
"Nothing grows under the shadow of a great tree." Randolph Churchill, son of Winston Churchill " . . . parting with a father who had so long watched over our best interests in childhood and in riper age and who was so kind and affectionate to all his children and had grown venerable with time [will] not be a thing of light moment." William Donelson, (1756 - 1820) brother of President Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel" Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive." Ogden Nash - Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.
" Perhaps parents would enjoy their children more if they stopped to realize that the film of childhood can never be run through for a second showing." Evelyn Nown -
"Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child." Unknown
"That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside her, rinsing her hair: as though his love for his daughter will outstrip the limits of his body. The walls could fall away, even the whole city, and the brightness of that feeling would not wane." 3rd person in All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
"The chameleon changes color to match the earth, the earth doesn't change colors to match the chameleon. Senegalese Proverb
"The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seems to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them." Eric Metaxas, (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, and radio host.
"The first man a girl falls in love with is her daddy." Unknown
"The foundation that is played in youth lasts through life." Martha Benjamin Washburn (1820-1909) was the oldest daughter of Israel and Martha Washburn. She was born at Livermore on February 6, 1820. She was educated in the schools of Livermore and at Waterville Liberal Institute. Afterwards, Martha taught school in Livermore.
"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart." Philosopher Mencius, 372 – 289 BC) was a Chinese philosopher
"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independance." Denis E. Waitley - born 1933 was a moivational speaker, consultant and author.
"The laughter of a child lights up the house." Swahili Proverb
"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them." Frank A. Clark - Frank A. Clark (1911-1991) was the creator of The Country Parson, a series of one panel newspaper cartoons that appeared in The Des Moines Register and was syndicated by more than 200 newspapers. It ran from 1955 until his death in 1991. -
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings." Hodding Carter, Jr., (February 3, 1907 – April 4, 1972), was a Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author.
"There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep." Ralph Waldo Emerso - Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882),[2] who went by his middle name Waldo,[3] was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet.
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." Diogenes, ( c.400– c.325 bc ), Greek philosopher
"We can't celebrate death in video games, celebrate death in TV shows, celebrate death in movies, celebrate death in musical lyrics and remove any sense of morality and sense of higher authority and then expect that things like this are not going to happen."Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, January 26, 2018; These comments were made after a student in Marshall County High School in Kentucky killed 2 students and wounded 17 others in a school shooting.
"We must care about the world of our children and grandchildren, a world we may never see." Bertrand Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist.
"We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves." Henry Ward Beecher - Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 – March 8, 1887) was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slaveryand his emphasis on God's love.
"We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that h e is someone today." Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet.
"What's done to children, they will do to society. " Karl Menninger - Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 – July 18, 1990) was an American psychiatrist, author, and activist. During his life he advocated for a number of causes including children suffering from abuse or neglect, Native Americans, women's rights, prisoners, the elderly, the environment, wildlife, and against nuclear weapons.
"When a woman is hungry, she says, 'Roast something for the children that they might eat.' " Ashanti Proverb
"When I think of her labors, her anxieties, her watchfulness, her good and wise counsels and her attention to all our wants, my heart swells with emotions of gratitude toward her which no language can express." Elihu Benjamin Washburne (September 23, 1816 – October 23, 1887) was an American politician and diplomat. He was a member of the Washburn family of Maine, which played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party.
"When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son." The Talmud
"You can't let a young-un decide for himself. He'll grab at the first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it. Then, when he finds out there's a hook in it, it's too late. Wrong ieas come packaged with so much glitter that it's hard to convince them that other things might be better in the long run. " On The Andy Griffith Show a man said this to Andy after Andy stated that he should let his young son, Opie, decide how he wants to live
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