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"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children
1,036 people liked it

"The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
— Mark Twain

tags: children, humor
176 people liked it

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

tags: children, hope, religion
118 people liked it

"Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. "
— Rick Riordan

tags: children, people, punishment, young, youth
84 people liked it

"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents."
— Emilie Buchwald

tags: children, parenting, reading
60 people liked it

"Childhood is for spoiling adulthood."
— Bill Watterson (The Days Are Just Packed)

tags: adults, children, humor
50 people liked it

"If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes)

tags: children, future, responsibility, worry
41 people liked it

"We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: childhood, children, future, parenthood, parenting
51 people liked it

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."
— Margaret Mead

tags: children, education
54 people liked it

"Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are."
— Isabel Allende

tags: children, love, unconditional
24 people liked it

"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."
— Stephen King

tags: children
47 people liked it

"His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master."
— Neil Gaiman (Anansi Boys)

tags: children, gravity, youth
27 people liked it

"Imagination is a gift. Don't waste it!"
— Jeanne Warnes

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"I like children. If they're properly cooked."
— W.C. Fields

tags: children
26 people liked it

"But outside the door to our Spanish class, leaning against the wall-looking more like a Greek god than anyone had a right to-Edward was waiting for me."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

tags: humor
192 people liked it

"Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful."
— Margaret Mead

tags: children, delightful, individuality, loathsome, people, stereotypes
29 people liked it

"You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart."
— Elizabeth Berg

tags: children
28 people liked it

"Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them"
— Ginnetta Correli

tags: absurd, children, god, life
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"Every child needs a champion."
— Hillary Rodham Clinton

tags: children, vision
20 people liked it

"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, the second half by our children."
— Clarence Darrow

tags: children, humor, parents
22 people liked it

"Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.

"Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.""
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

tags: fame, humor
137 people liked it

"If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things."
— Norman Douglas

tags: children
24 people liked it

"Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much."
— Lisa Wingate

tags: children, faith, family
18 people liked it

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.
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— Phyllis Diller

tags: children, housekeeping
29 people liked it

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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— Kahlil Gibrán

tags: children
11 people liked it

"Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up."
— Ray Romano

tags: children, humor, parenting
11 people liked it

"Life is only lived full-time by women with children."
— Marguerite Duras

tags: children, life, women
14 people liked it

"Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind."
— Howard W. Hunter

tags: motherhood
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"Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without."
— Jodi Picoult (Perfect Match)

tags: motherhood
92 people liked it

"Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws."
— Barbara Kingsolver

16 people liked it

"Motherhood is a fleeting season in our life, maximize every moment."
— Jill Savage

4 people liked it

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. "
— Abigail Adams

tags: adam-and-eve, bible, christianity, feminism, genesis, knowledge, motherhood, old-testement, religion
24 people liked it

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"
— Milton Berle

tags: motherhood
15 people liked it

"[T]he best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready."
— Nancy E. Turner (These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : A Novel)

tags: marriage, motherhood, wife, women
39 people liked it

"Edward. Edward. My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. And a world without Edward seemed completely pointless. Edward had to exist."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

tags: breaking-dawn, death, fate, life, love, soulmates, true, twilight
932 people liked it

"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: empty-nest, humor, motherhood, parenthood, parenting
37 people liked it

"'This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.'"
— Jennifer Weiner

tags: certain, girls
17 people liked it

"There is eternal influence and power in motherhood."
— Julie B. Beck

tags: motherhood
7 people liked it

"Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways."
— Roxanne Henke

tags: motherhood
5 people liked it

"The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood. "
— Victor Hugo

4 people liked it

"Burnt toast is actually fairly symbolic of Motherhood. If you are the one who burned the toast, you scrape if off and eat it yourself. If they burned it, you eat it because the burned it specially for you."
— Emily Watts

5 people liked it

"If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives."
— Susan Douglas (The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women)

4 people liked it

"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it."
— Rose Kennedy

tags: motherhood
2 people liked it

"Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering."
— Elaine Heffner

2 people liked it

"Thus far the mighty mystery of motherhood is this: How is it that doing it all feels like nothing is ever getting done.
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— Rebecca Woolf

tags: motherhood
8 people liked it

"I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood."
— Francesca Lia Block (Guarding the Moon: A Mother's First Year)

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"Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world."
— David O. McKay

5 people liked it

"You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies. "
— Zadie Smith (On Beauty)

tags: motherhood
7 people liked it

"The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over cups of tea at a table sticky with spilled apple juice and littered with markers without tops.""
— Anna Quindlen

tags: motherhood
4 people liked it

"A mother knows what her child's gone through, even if she didn't see it herself."
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer (The Girl From The Coast)

tags: motherhood
6 people liked it

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