Children Quotes, Baby Quotes

"Life, love, and laughter -- what priceless gifts to give our children."
Phyllis Dryden

"Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations."
Dr. James C. Dobson

"Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children."
Alex Haley

"Every child is born a genius."
Richard Buckminster Fuller

"In the final analysis 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

"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."
Harry Edwards

"Children are a wonderful gift . . . They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are."
Desmond Tutu

"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
Wayne Dyer

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
Denis Waitley

"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
Haim Ginott

"may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home"
from the song "Forever Young", sung by Rod Stewart

"may good fortune be with you and may your guiding light be strong"
from the song "Forever Young", sung by Rod Stewart

"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day."
Orlando A. Battista

"To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself."
Chinese Proverb

"It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from."
Anne Tyler

"If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart."
Mother Clara Hale

"It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late."
Betty Ford

"If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings."
Brian Tracy

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe in them."
Lady Bird Johnson

"One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their society -- is to read to children."
Carl Sagan

"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
Herbert Hoover

"If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals."
Lillian Carter

"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
Hosea Ballou

"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."
J. B. Priestley

"Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him."
Dr. Henker

"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

"Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful."
Charles Osgood

"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."
Frank A. Clark

"Before you were conceived I wanted you
Before you were born I loved you
Before you were here an hour I would die for you
This is the miracle of love."
Maureen Hawkins

"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss."
Deepak Chopra

"In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Babies are such a nice way to start people."
Don Herrold

"When you are a mother, you are never alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
Sophia Loren

"A new baby is like the beginning of all things-wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities."
Eda J. Le Shan

"A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for."
Author Unknown

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
Carl Sandburg

"Every baby needs a lap."
Henry Robin

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