1. It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. - Frederick Douglass
2. We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. - Christopher Morley
3. When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity. - Rose Kennedy
4. Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings. - Hugh Jackman
5. At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents. - Jane D. Hull
6. Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. - Plato
7. Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy
8. Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. - George Bernard Shaw
9. There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10. Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. - Carl Jung
11. A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. - Billy Graham
12. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud
13. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted. - Walter Scott
14. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. - Erma Bombeck
15. Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. - Charles R. Swindoll
16. I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. - Robert Orben
17. Never raise your hand to your children - it leaves your midsection unprotected. - Robert Orben
18. Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
19. Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. - Gloria Steinem
20. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much. - Jackie Kennedy
21. We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. - Henry Ward Beecher
22. Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. - Denis Waitley
23. It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden. - Patricia Heaton
24. The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears. - Phil McGraw
25. No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. - Miguel de Cervantes
26. Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. - P. J. O'Rourke
27. Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. - P. J. O'Rourke
28. At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. - Ellen Key
29. Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. - Phyllis Diller
30. Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children. - Princess Diana
31. Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. - Garrison Keillor
32. Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. - Miriam Makeba
33. If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible. - Suze Orman
34. Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. - Ogden Nash
35. A mother who is really a mother is never free. - Honore de Balzac
36. It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. - Anne Sullivan
37. Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are trying to become. - Coretta Scott King
38. Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending. - Virginia Satir
39. Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day. - Taylor Hanson
40. Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. - Stevie Nicks
41. I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. - Tina Turner
42. My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do. - Mitt Romney
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