Quotable Quotes (9 page)

—
S
YDNEY
J
.
H
ARRIS

 

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks most deeply and draws more blood.

—
M
AYA
A
NGELOU

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

 

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

—
A
NNE
S
EXTON

 

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

—
A
LVIN
T
OFFLER

Future Shock

 

The word no carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.

—
J
OYCE
M
AYNARD

in
Parenting

 

Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.

—
J
AMES
A
.
B
REWER

 

Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.

—
M
ARY
H
.
W
ALDRIP

 

Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.

—
P
HIL
M
OSS

in
National Enquirer

 

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children—and what an inhuman world, without the aged.

—
S
AMUEL
T
AYLOR
C
OLERIDGE

 

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in heredity.

—
D
OUG
L
ARSON

 

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

—
S
AM
L
EVENSON

You Don't Have to Be in “Who's Who” to Know What's What

 

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

—
A
LEX
H
ALEY

in
The Maroon

 

I don't know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

—
A
BRAHAM
L
INCOLN

 

C
HILDREN ARE THE LIVING MESSAGES 
. . .

 

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.

—
J
OHN
W
.
W
HITEHEAD

The Stealing of America

 

My best creation is my children.

—
D
IANE
V
ON
F
URSTENBERG

 

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

—
R
ABINDRANATH
T
AGORE

 

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

—
S
OPHOCLES

 

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

—
J
OHN
W
.
G
ARDNER AND
F
RANCESCA
G
ARDNER
R
EESE

in
Know or Listen to Those Who Know

 

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.

—
E
VELYN
N
OWN

 

Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.

—
J
OAN
G
ANZ
C
OONEY

 

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

—
B
ILL
C
OSBY

Fatherhood

 

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

—
C
.
E
VERETT
K
OOP,
MD

 

Children have more need of models than of critics.

—
C
AROLYN
C
OATS

Things Your Dad Always Told You But You Didn't Want to Hear

 

The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.

—
D
ANNY
K
AYE

 

Although today there are many trial marriages, there is no such thing as a trial child.

—
G
ARY
W
ILLS

 

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

—
L
ARRY
W
ILDE

The Merry Book of Christmas

 

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.

—
C
HARLES
D
ICKENS

 

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

—
G
.
K
.
C
HESTERTON

 

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

—
M
AYA
A
NGELOU

 

When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

—
P
.
L
.
T
RAVERS

 

I still live in and on the sunshine of my childhood.

—
C
HRISTIAN
M
ORGENSTERN

 

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

—
W
ALT
S
TREIGHTIFF

 

The penalty for censoring what your children may be taught is children who are brighter than you.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

—
C
ARL
G
.
J
UNG

The Development of Personality

 

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

—
D
ENNIS
F
AKES

Points with Punch

 

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments: tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

—
L
OUIS
P
ASTEUR

 

We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

—
S
TACIA
T
AUSCHER

 

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

A child is the root of the heart.

—
C
AROLINA
M
ARÍA DE
J
ESÚS

 

There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

—
R
ALPH
W
ALDO
E
MERSON

 

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

—
F
RAN
L
EBOWITZ

Social Studies

 

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

—
A
RNOLD
H
.
G
LASOW

 

Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

—
J
AMES
B
ALDWIN

 

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

—
O
GDEN
N
ASH

 

Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful.

—
C
HARLES
O
SGOOD

“CBS Morning News”

 

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.

—
J
OHN
J
.
P
LOMP

 

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
 

And that's what parents were created for.

—
O
GDEN
N
ASH

 

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

—
P
ETER
U
STINOV

in
National Enquirer

 

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

—
F
RED
R
OGERS

 

Having a young child explain something exciting he has seen is the finest example of communication you will ever hear or see.

—
B
OB
T
ALBERT

 

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

The greatest aid to adult education is children.

—
C
HARLIE
T
.
J
ONES AND
B
OB
P
HILLIPS

Wit & Wisdom

 

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

—
H
AIM
G
INOTT

 

Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

—
J
ESS
L
AIR

 

When everything is astonishing, nothing is astonishing; this is how the world is to children.

—
A
NTOINE
R
IVAROLI

 

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around—and why his parents will always wave back.

—
W
ILLIAM
D
.
T
AMMEUS

 

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

—
R
ABELAIS

 

Kids are always the only future the human race has.

—
W
ILLIAM
S
AROYAN

 

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

We set standards for drugs, because bad drugs cross state lines. Well, badly educated children cross state lines, too.

—
A
DM.
H
YMAN
G
.
R
ICKOVER

 

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

—
A
BIGAIL
V
AN
B
UREN

 

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

—
N
ADIA
B
OULANGER

 

The best things you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.

—
S
YDNEY
J
.
H
ARRIS

 

A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.

—
J
AN
B
LAUSTONE

The Joy of Parenthood

 

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.