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• Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They’re its finest fruits.

  Anna Quindlen

  Topics in Family

• It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself.

  Joyce Maynard

  Topics in Family

• Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

  John Wilmot

  Topics in Family

• It should be noted that children’s games are not merely games; one should regard them as their most serious activities.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Topics in Family

• Babies help us to put the changing world into perspective too. Changing the world has to wait, when it’s time to change the baby.

  Charles Osgood

  Topics in Family

• Parenting is not an intellectual endeavor. It does not emanate from the head. If it did, the smartest people would be the best parents, and I have never noticed that. Good parenting is rooted is a matter of how rooted you are in the steady soil of common sense. The heart and the gut are what make a good parent, not the head. Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  James Baldwin

  Topics in Family

• There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Family

• When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, “Why god? Why me?” and the thundering voice of God answered, “There’s just something about you that pisses me off.”

  Stephen King

  Topics in Family, God, Humor, Life, Religion

• Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

  Adam Sandler

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Guilty, Sometimes

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

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Family

• Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman’s work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Family

• How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child!

  William Shakespeare

  Topics in Family

• Children need models more than they need critics.

  Joseph Joubert

  Topics in Family

• Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Family

• If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

  Billy Graham

  Topics in Family

• Babies are always more trouble than you thought-and more wonderful.

  Charles Osgood

  Topics in Family

• Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail.They cannot give their entire attention to it.

  Arnold Bennett

  Topics in Family

• Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

  William Penn

  Topics in Family

• Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

  Bern Williams

  Topics in Family

• I have found 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

  Topics in Advice, Children, Family, Life