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  An hour with your grandchildren can make you feel young again. Anything longer than that, and you start to age quickly.
 ~parenting quotes by Gene Perret

  I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.
 ~inspirational sayings about Grandparents quotes by Gene Perret

  Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
 ~parenting quotes by George Savile, Marquess de Halifax, Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

  Grandparents are similar to a piece of string - handy to have around and easily wrapped around the fingers of their grandchildren.
 ~famous quotes about Grandparents by Author Unknown

  Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
 ~parenting sayings by Haim Ginott

  Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
 ~parenting quotes by Elizabeth Stone

  Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.
 ~inspirational sayings about Curmudgeons quotes by Bill Fitch

  Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying(Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more oftenUsually it makes the kid laughSometimes it s
 ~parenting quotes by P.J. O'Rourke

  All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live
 ~famous quotes about Dreams by Joseph Epstein

  Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents?
 ~parenting sayings by Thomas Szasz

  Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.
 ~parenting quotes by Joey Adams

  He who learns from his parents to spend less than he earns owes them more than those who inherit fortunes.
 ~inspirational sayings about Financial quotes by

  Your life is something opaque, not transparent, as long as you look at it in an ordinary human way. But if you hold it up against the light of God's goodness, it shines and turns transparent, radiant and bright. And then you ask yourself in amazement: Is this really my own life I see before me?
 ~parenting quotes by Albert Schweitzer

  Have children while your parents are still young enough to take care of them.
 ~famous quotes about Grandparents by Rita Rudner

  If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
 ~parenting sayings by Hannah Whithall Smith

   The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
 ~parenting quotes by Norman Vincent Peale

   Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
 ~good sayings about Self by Henry Van Dyke, The Prison and the Angel

   Men who never get carried away should be.
 ~parenting quotes by Malcolm Forbes

   I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
 ~motivational quotes about Brothers sayings by James Boswell

   If you were waiting for the oppurtune moment ... that was it
 ~parenting sayings by Jack Sparrow

   Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible.

 ~parenting quotes by Mother Teresa

   Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.
 ~good sayings about Opportunities by Author Unknown

   We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
 ~parenting quotes by George Bernard Shaw, Candida, 1898

   Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
 ~motivational quotes about Summer sayings by Sam Keen

   Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
 ~parenting sayings by Edward Young, Night Thoughts

   A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
 ~parenting quotes by Chinese Proverb

   Not afraid of heights - afraid of widths.
 ~good sayings about Dieting by Author Unknown

   I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
 ~parenting quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

   People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
 ~motivational quotes about Hypocrisy sayings by Elizabeth Drew, The New Yorker, 16 February 1987

   You [men] are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?
 ~parenting sayings by Mary Edwards Walker

   Use the talents you possess - for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.
 ~parenting quotes by Henry Van Dyke

   Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
 ~good sayings about Beauty by Kahlil Gibran

   There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.
 ~parenting quotes by Mike Penner, Los Angeles Times

   The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
 ~motivational quotes about Wisdom sayings by Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

   There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America
 ~parenting sayings by William J. Clinton

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