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One of the hardest things to teach a child is that
the truth is more important than the consequences.
—O.A. Battista
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The Child who is being raised strictly by the book
is probably a first edition.
—Aldous Huxley
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
—William Shakesphere,
"The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he
was born in another time.
—Rabbinical Saying
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You have to love your children unselfishly. That's
hard. But it's the only way.
—Barbara Bush
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The chances are that you'll never be elected President
of the country, write the great American novel, make a million
dollars, stop pollution and racial conflict, or save the world.
However valid it may be to work at any of these goals, there
is another one of higher priority-to be an effective parent.
—Landrum R. Bolling
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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots
a phony quicker than a child.
—Mary MacCracken
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Children are the sum of what parents contribute
to their lives.
—Richard L. Strauss
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Words once spoken can never be recalled.
—Wentworth Dillion
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting,
all knife and root-pulling, but guiding, instructive, inspirational.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you want to see what children can do, you must
stop giving them things.
—Norman Douglas
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Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and
rewards than being a father to my children.
—Bill Cosby
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A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all that
you can afford to give.
—Frank A. Clark
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The point is to develop the childlike inclination
for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide
the child over to important fields for society.
—Albert Einstein
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One Motivation is worth ten threats, two pressures
and six reminders.
—Paul Sweeny
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Children need models rather than critics.
—Joseph Joubart
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A baby is born with a need to be loved and never
out grows it.
—Frank A. Clark
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Encouragement after censure is as the sun after
a shower.
—Goethe
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If there is anything we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is not something
that could better be changed in ourselves.
—Carl Jung
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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,
let it be enthusiasm.
—Bruce Barton
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Children are not our property, and they are not
ours to control any more that we were our parents' property
or theirs to control.
—Richard Bach
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I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could
ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift would be curiosity.
—Elenor Roosevelt
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