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PARENTING: The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity. (Unknown Source)
PARENTING: An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverbMaturity: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Insight: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Aging: You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. (Woody Allen, U.S. actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, Born 1935)
PARENTING: There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. (Hodding Carter III, journalist and politician, Born 1935)
PARENTING: Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. (Marcelene Cox, U.S. writer, 1899-1998)
PARENTING: The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children. (Edward, Duke of Windsor, King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, 1894-1972)
PARENTING: The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Theodore Hesburgh, U.S. priest who served for 35 years as the president of the University of Notre Dame, 1917-2015)
PARENTING: A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents. (Unknown source)
PARENTING: The child is father of the man. (William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)
PARENTING: Come Mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and daughters are beyond your command. (Bob Dylan, U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter [The Times They Are A-Changin�], Born 1941)
PARENTING: When a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian novelist, journalist, Nobel laureate, Born 1927)
PARENTING: The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)
PARENTING: Parenting is a lifetime sentence. (Unknown source)
PARENTING: What's done to children, they will do to society. (Karl A. Menninger, U.S. psychiatrist, 1893-1990)
PARENTING: An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverb)
PARENTING: A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. (Unknown Source)
PARENTING: Let your children go if you want to keep them. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)
PARENTING: Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee. (Margaret Courtney, British poet and folklorist, 1822-1862)
PARENTING: Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)
PARENTING: If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)
PARENTING: When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)
PARENTING: Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. (John Wilmot, English Earl and poet, 1647-1680)
PARENTING: He that spareth his rod hateth his son. (The Bible)