(6863 quotes found)
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots, the other is wings.”
Hodding Carter
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop”
Mark Twain
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The best thing to spend on your children is your time.”
Louise Hart
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
Robert Fulghum
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
Dr. Haim Ginott
“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
Rosaleen Dickson
“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them”
Oscar Wilde
“Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on."”
Erma Bombeck