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Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Clarence Darrow

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes

Chinese Proverbs

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

Chinese Proverbs

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

Alan Bennett

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Plato

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde

Children learn to smile from their parents.

Shinichi Suzuki

Some parents really bring their children up; others let them down

Unknown

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

John Ruskin

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Arthur Baldwin

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

Dr. Haim Ginott

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Dr. James C. Dobson

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Roger Rosenblatt

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

Michael Levine

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

P. J. O\'Rourke

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away

Nancy Mitford

The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun

Jean Paul Richter

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Oscar Wilde

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Phyllis Diller

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

Richard Whately

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

Gore Vidal

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

Peter Ustinov

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