Top 100 Quotes About Your Children
#1. I thought I had to prove myself with money and accomplishments. But those will always ring hollow. They will never be enough. I want to be somebody. Let me be your husband. Let me be the father of your child -of all your children.
Courtney Milan
#2. Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
Victor Hugo
#3. You are wise in the ways of real love, Mackenzie. So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. Love is just the skin of knowing. Mackenzie, you love your children, whom you know so well, with a wonderful and real love.
Wm. Paul Young
#4. Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.
Reese Witherspoon
#5. You love your children so much, you do everything to try to protect them, and they don't even appreciate it.
Kevin Kwan
#6. As parents, you may confidently rear your children according to Gods Word. While bringing up your children, you are to remember that your children are not your 'possessions' but instead are the Lords gift to you. You are to exercise faithful stewardship in their lives.
John C. Broger
#7. The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.
Paul Farmer
#8. The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who are taking care of your children, those are the people who are the lovers of the world, are the good of the world.
Eve Ensler
#9. After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!
Joe Dean
#10. If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.
Woodrow Wilson
#11. A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.
Justine Bateman
#12. My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.
Rick Scott
#13. If your faith is genuine, then you meet your responsibilities, fulfill your obligations, and wait until you are found. It will come. If not to you, then to your children, and if not to them, then to their children.
Mark Helprin
#14. This is a truism of child-raising, of course - whatever you give special time and attention to cooking, your children will despise and reject, with annoying gagging sounds.
Marni Jackson
#15. To all the parents out there, thank you for allowing me to be a role model for your children. I really, really do not take that for granted.
Zendaya
#16. You should encourage your children to see the needs of those around them.
Tedd Tripp
#17. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.
Abraham Lincoln
#18. When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.
Steve McFadden
#19. I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
Francesca Annis
#20. Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That's not possible on $1 a day.
Bill Gates
#21. It felt great to be loved. Children... Children are a hazard to your life... As they'd got older they had become more expensive. But it was worth it. If she didn't have her children her life would be empty. And even though your children leave your nest, they always have one foot tethered to you.
Cindy Vine
#22. Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.
Liam Neeson
#23. The central focus of parenting is the gospel. You need to direct not simply the behavior of your children, but the attitudes of their hearts.
Tedd Tripp
#24. I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That's much better than watching television, much better. They won't get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#25. If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.
Byron Katie
#26. Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.
Christopher Alexander
#27. Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
Peter Diamandis
#28. Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#29. Live your life. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Take your kids to kindergarten. Raise your children and your grandchildren. Take care of the community in which you live. Make all of that your path, and follow your path with heart.
Dipa Ma
#30. Thank you for this honor. It was most unexpected, and I must say, undeserved. The only memorial I would ask of you is that you love your children, encourage them in following their dreams, and treat them as the treasures they are. Do this, and my sacrifice is well justified. Thank you." Thankfully,
Bryan Fields
#31. The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.
Jackie Kennedy
#32. Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.
Iyanla Vanzant
#33. ...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs. Their pain reminds you of your pain. All of it reminds you of how bad it felt, how hard it was, how much you wanted and needed and didn't get. It's very hard.
Sarah Dunn
#34. True love, whether you live your life on the run or spend it in the same house where you raise your children, is never easy and it's certainly never safe. It's a risk we take believing the reward is greater than what we give up.
Rachel Higginson
#35. The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.
Theognis Of Megara
#36. If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about
1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.
Bryan Caplan
#37. Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
Ellen G. White
#38. When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.
Michael Morpurgo
#39. I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Olivia Williams
#40. This country try to take everything from you. Your language, your food, your children.
Learn how to use chopsticks.
This country can't have everything.
Nicola Yoon
#41. If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they'll murder you in your sleep.
Frank Zappa
#42. If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
Albert Einstein
#44. Cherish your children...for they are the footprints you will leave behind.
Taylor Evan Fulks
#45. Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball games and recitals, to school programs, and so forth. Having Dad there makes all the difference.
Ezra Taft Benson
#46. Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.
Marc Faber
#47. Teach your children that many of the blessings of the Church are available to them because you and they give tithes and offerings to the Church. Teach them that those blessings could come virtually no other way.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#48. Some people say you achieve immortality through your children," said the minstrel.
"Yeah?" said Cohen. "Name one of your great-granddads, then.
Terry Pratchett
#49. The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?"
Erma Bombeck
#50. If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.
Ed Stetzer
#51. Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.
Wendy Wasserstein
#52. In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.
Polixeni Papapetrou
#53. It sends out a very clear message: Mess with us and we'll do something worse than kill you. We'll kill your children.
Suzanne Collins
#54. I think parenthood is a wonderful balancing act. On the one hand, you want to spend as much time with your children as possible. On the other hand, you want to set an example for them to see that you're fulfilled in your life and in your work.
Michael Sheen
#55. Your retirement comes before your children's tuition. That's because there's no financial aid for retirement, and there's still a good deal available for college.
Jean Chatzky
#56. As you put your children to bed, spend at least three minutes of private time, after books and bathroom and teeth-brushing, and ask them to tell you one thing they did that they appreciate themselves for and one thing someone else did that they are thankful
for. You
M.J. Ryan
#57. The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
Louise Hart
#58. The gospel enables you and your children to face the worst in yourselves - your sin, your badness, and your weakness - and still find hope, because grace is powerful.
Tedd Tripp
#59. Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.
Andrew Galasetti
#60. The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift.
Eve M. Harrell
#61. You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.
Maya Angelou
#62. Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talks - try to stay awake! Pray for the Lord to inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord.
Bonnie D. Parkin
#63. The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
Rand Paul
#65. Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.
Christopher Dodd
#66. I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
Erica Jong
#67. You will be astonished to find how the whole mental disposition of your children changes with advancing years. A young child and the same when nearly grown, sometimes differ almost as much as do a caterpillar and butterfly.
Charles Darwin
#68. Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
William Cecil
#69. Please keep your children at your side. Unattended children will be given a shot of espresso and a puppy.
(petting zoo sign)
Katie MacAlister
#70. Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands this piece of the earth itself as a sign that we restore them to you and your children forever.
Gough Whitlam
#71. Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#72. The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.
Evan Esar
#73. Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#74. The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.
Jessica Lange
#75. Success will be measured at the end of your career, not at the peak. When you're finished with baseball, if you love God, if you're still in love with your wife, if your children know who you are, and if your reputation is still intact, then you'll be successful.
Tommy Newberry
#76. I had come to realize that you must do what you must for your children, even it if called for the sacrifice of your very soul.
Lynn Cullen
#77. Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy, no person, place or thing, and that true happiness is found within.
Neale Donald Walsch
#78. Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
Randy Alcorn
#79. I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your children?' I don't think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.
Jenny Shipley
#80. Build your schools around concepts, not academic subjects: core concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility, freedom and diversity in oneness. Teach your children these things and you will have taught them grandly.
Neale Donald Walsch
#81. Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.
Eleesha
#82. As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.
Susan Cain
#83. Most business mistakes are irreversible setbacks, but you get another chance. There are two things in life that you don't get another chance at - marrying the wrong person and what you do with your children.
Warren Buffett
#84. There's nothing like coming home and having your children sprint to the door and leap into your arms. That alone is reason enough to be a parent.
Harrison Drake
#85. It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.
Denis Norden
#86. And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#87. The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever".
Davina McCall
#88. Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
Tom Stoppard
#89. This is the problem with the way you educate your children. You don't want your young ones drawing their own conclusions. You want them to come to the same conclusions that you came to. Thus you doom them to repeat the mistakes to which your own conclusions led you.
Neale Donald Walsch
#90. Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.
Geoffrey Canada
#91. If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.
Albert Einstein
#92. You are almost never cool to your children.
Neil Gaiman
#93. Be a role model not a critic. Don't tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do - show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.
Denis Waitley
#94. Don't: DO THINGS YOU WOULDN'T WANT (YOUR MOTHER, GOD, YOUR CHILDREN) TO KNOW ABOUT.
Anonymous
#95. Every state in America has an end of life directive or durable power of attorney provision. For the peace of mind of your children and your spouse as well as the comfort of knowing the government won't make these decisions, it's a very popular thing. Just not everybody's aware of it.
Johnny Isakson
#96. Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
Samuel Johnson
#97. 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 Truman
#98. As you create a home, don't get distracted with a lot of things that have no meaning for you or your family. Don't dwell on your failures, but think of your successes. Have joy in your home. Have joy in your children. Have joy in your husband. Be grateful for the journey.
Marjorie Pay Hinckley
#99. One of life's great challenges is getting out of your own way after a divorce or breakup ... Heartache and anger make you feel like enemies, but your children need you to be a team. Unfortunately, few rise to this challenge, and the children pay an emotional debt they did not incur.
Steve Maraboli
#100. You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.
John Kasich
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