FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT RAISING CHILDREN

“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair

“It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.” – Ann Landers

“Your children need your presence more than your presents.” – Jesse Jackson

“Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.” – John F. Kennedy

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” – Margaret Mead

“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham

“The best thing you can give your children, next to good habits, are good memories.” – Sydney Harris

“The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The best way to predict your children’s future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

“The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

“Your children need your love most when they deserve it the least.” – Erma Bombeck

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.” – Abigail Van Buren

“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all one’s might that which one desires.” – Paulo Coelho

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh MY BROTHER BECAME A FATHER QUOTES

“Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” – Kahlil Gibran

“There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

“Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.” – Wess Stafford

“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.” – M. Grundler

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

“The most valuable gift we can give a child is our presence.” – Bill Hoest

“Play is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein

“Children make your life important.” – Erma Bombeck

“The best academy, a mother’s knee.” – James Russell Lowell

“A child’s love could simply be one of the most beautiful sounds in the world.” – Karen Wells