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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
~parenting quotes sayings by Clarence Darrow
A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.
~inspirational sayings about Teenagers quotes by Lewis B. Hershey, News summaries, 31 December 1951
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
First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.
~famous quotes about Generations by Milton Greenblatt
Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.
~parenting sayings by Marcelene Cox
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
~parenting quotes sayings by Buddha
Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.
~inspirational sayings about Self quotes by Louis L'Amour
If nothing is going well, call your grandmother
~parenting quotes by Italian Proverb
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!
~famous quotes about Grandparents by Hannah Whithall Smith
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS
~parenting sayings by Gene Perret
Sibling relationships - and 80 percent of Americans have at least one - outlast marriages, survive the death of parents, resurface after quarrels that would sink any friendship. They flourish in a thousand incarnations of closeness and distance, warmth, loyalty and distrust.
~parenting quotes sayings by Erica E. Goode, The Secret World of Siblings, U.S. News & World Report, 10 January 1994
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
~inspirational sayings about Mothers Day quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
~parenting quotes by Allan Frome
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
~famous quotes about Parenting by Edward, Duke of Windsor, Look, 5 March 1957
If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.
~parenting sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
~parenting quotes sayings by Daniel Webster
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
~good sayings about Golf by H.L. Mencken
She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say when.
~parenting quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
~motivational quotes about Light sayings by Antonio Porchia
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
~parenting sayings by J. Robert Oppenheimer
If cheerleading got any easier, it would be called football.
~parenting quotes sayings by Author Unknown
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
~good sayings about Art by William Faulkner
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
~parenting quotes by Fanny Brice
Nothing that is complete breathes.
~motivational quotes about Perfection sayings by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.
~parenting sayings by Bob Phillips
To fish for praise sow the seeds: friendly words and kindly deeds.
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Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.
~good sayings about Logic by Raymond F. Jones, The Non-Statistical Man
Happiness is a form of courage.
~parenting quotes by Holbrook Jackson
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
~motivational quotes about Self-Discovery sayings by Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue.
~parenting sayings by Author Unknown
I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.
~parenting quotes sayings by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
~good sayings about Dogs by David Starr Jordan
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
~parenting quotes by George Santayana
I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.
~motivational quotes about Clothing sayings by Andrée Putman
You never know what you've got until it's gone.
~parenting sayings by Author Unknown
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