Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Favorite Quotes

Children seldom misquote you. They more often repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
Mae Maloo

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
Old English Proverb

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Roger Lewin

Never teach your child to be cunning for you may be certain that you will be one of the first victims of his shrewdness.
Josh Billings

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
David Bly

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