“Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.” -Hubert Humphrey (Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Junior (1911 - 1978))
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.” -Hodding Carter II (1907 - 1972): “Where Main Street Meets the River” (1953), chapter 27, page 337
“My accomplishments? Let me show you these pictures in my wallet.” -Author Unknown
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is.” -Angela Schwindt
“Children need love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.” -Deborah Harkness (born 1965): “Shadow of Night” (10 July 2012)
“My mom used to say it doesn’t matter how many kids you have . . . because one kid’ll take up 100 percent of your time, so more kids can’t possibly take up more than 100 percent of your time.” -Karen Brown
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))
“It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.” -J. M. Barrie (James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)): “Peter Pan” (1911)
“The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.” -Sloan Wilson
The work will wait while you show the child a rainbow,
But the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.
-Patricia Clafford
“We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
“All children, even those who do not seem to deserve it, need a parent’s love.” -Author Unknown
“Most kids hear what you say; some kids do what you say; but all kids do what you do.” -Kathleen Casey Theisen
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” -Robert Fulghum (Robert Lee Fulghum (born 1937))
“Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.” -Terence (Publius Terentius Afer (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.))
“Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.” -Author Unknown
“Adults, take heed of this simple rule: What should not be heard by little ears should not be said by big mouths.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, “You know what? I have a belly button!” and completely throw you off guard.” -Bo Bennett
“A child should not be forced to be busy all the time. Let’s take away the tremendous pressures we place on our children both in school and at home. Give the child an opportunity to sit back and daydream once in a while.” -Benjamin Fine
“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.” -Milton R. Saperstein
“What’s done to children, they will do to society.” -Karl Menninger (Karl Augustus Menninger (1893 - 1990))
“I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.” -Greg Norman
“If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job.” -Author Unknown
“Children are educated by what the grownup is and not by his talk.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“In an effort to insure my children’s tomorrows, I have lost their todays.” -Danny Thomas (pseudonym of Amos Jacobs Kairouz (1912 - 1991))
A teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his driveway. After a fruitless search, he told his mother the lens was nowhere to be found. Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes returned with the lens in her hand. “How did you manage to find it, Mom?” the teenager asked. “We weren’t looking for the same thing,” she replied. “You were looking for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150.”
“Kids spell love t-i-m-e.” -John Crudele (Meaning ‘time you spend with them.’)
“You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children turned out.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“Children would all be brought up perfectly if families would just swap them with each other. Everyone knows what ought to be done with the neighbor’s children.” -Author Unknown
Surely green branches thou mayst render straight;
Th’ attempt to straighten dry wood comes too late.
-Author Unknown
“Children are Nature’s way of saying, ‘Your house is way too neat!’” -Author Unknown
“Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.” -Bob Keeshan (Robert James ‘Bob’ Keeshan (1927 - 2004))
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” -Anna Quindlen (born 1952): ‘Enough Bookshelves’ in the “New York Times” (7 August 1991) newspaper
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other wings.” -Hodding Carter II (1907 - 1972): “Where Main Street Meets the River” (1953), chapter 27, page 337
“My accomplishments? Let me show you these pictures in my wallet.” -Author Unknown
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is.” -Angela Schwindt
“Children need love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.” -Deborah Harkness (born 1965): “Shadow of Night” (10 July 2012)
“My mom used to say it doesn’t matter how many kids you have . . . because one kid’ll take up 100 percent of your time, so more kids can’t possibly take up more than 100 percent of your time.” -Karen Brown
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” -C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898 - 1963))
“It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the day.” -J. M. Barrie (James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1937)): “Peter Pan” (1911)
“The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.” -Sloan Wilson
The work will wait while you show the child a rainbow,
But the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.
-Patricia Clafford
“We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.” -Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
“All children, even those who do not seem to deserve it, need a parent’s love.” -Author Unknown
“Most kids hear what you say; some kids do what you say; but all kids do what you do.” -Kathleen Casey Theisen
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” -Robert Fulghum (Robert Lee Fulghum (born 1937))
“Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.” -Terence (Publius Terentius Afer (185 B.C.E. - 159 B.C.E.))
“Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.” -Author Unknown
“Adults, take heed of this simple rule: What should not be heard by little ears should not be said by big mouths.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, “You know what? I have a belly button!” and completely throw you off guard.” -Bo Bennett
“A child should not be forced to be busy all the time. Let’s take away the tremendous pressures we place on our children both in school and at home. Give the child an opportunity to sit back and daydream once in a while.” -Benjamin Fine
“Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance.” -Milton R. Saperstein
“What’s done to children, they will do to society.” -Karl Menninger (Karl Augustus Menninger (1893 - 1990))
“I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.” -Greg Norman
“If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job.” -Author Unknown
“Children are educated by what the grownup is and not by his talk.” -C. G. Jung (Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961))
“In an effort to insure my children’s tomorrows, I have lost their todays.” -Danny Thomas (pseudonym of Amos Jacobs Kairouz (1912 - 1991))
A teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his driveway. After a fruitless search, he told his mother the lens was nowhere to be found. Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes returned with the lens in her hand. “How did you manage to find it, Mom?” the teenager asked. “We weren’t looking for the same thing,” she replied. “You were looking for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150.”
“Kids spell love t-i-m-e.” -John Crudele (Meaning ‘time you spend with them.’)
“You have nothing in this world more precious than your children. When you grow old, when your hair turns white and your body grows weary, when you are prone to sit in a rocker and meditate on the things of life, nothing will be so important as the question of how your children turned out.” -Gordon B. Hinckley (Gordon Bitner Hinckley (1910 - 2008))
“Children would all be brought up perfectly if families would just swap them with each other. Everyone knows what ought to be done with the neighbor’s children.” -Author Unknown
Surely green branches thou mayst render straight;
Th’ attempt to straighten dry wood comes too late.
-Author Unknown
“Children are Nature’s way of saying, ‘Your house is way too neat!’” -Author Unknown
“Parents are the ultimate role models for children. Every word, movement and action has an effect. No other person or outside force has a greater influence on a child than the parent.” -Bob Keeshan (Robert James ‘Bob’ Keeshan (1927 - 2004))
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” -Anna Quindlen (born 1952): ‘Enough Bookshelves’ in the “New York Times” (7 August 1991) newspaper
“Parenting a child is more than raising that child; it is also teaching that child to one day parent his or her child. Generation to generation to generation, all across the immense span of human history, parenting is more important than anyone could ever imagine.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.” -Shannon Fife
“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.” -Mignon McLaughlin: “The Second Neurotic’s Notebook” (1966)
Young Dianne, only four years old, returned home from nursery school complaining, “Mommy, I’ve got a stomach ache.” “That’s because your stomach is empty,” Sarah, her mother, replied kindly. “You’ll feel better when you have something in it.” She made Dianne a small snack and sure enough, Dianne felt better immediately. Later that afternoon, Dianne’s class tutor dropped by to see Sarah. While she was chatting with Dianne’s mother, she mentioned she’d had a bad headache all day long. Dianne perked up straightaway and announced to her teacher, “That’s because it’s empty. You’d feel much better if you had something in it!”
“Who of us is mature enough for children before they arrive? The value of marriage isn’t that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.” -Peter De Vries
A toddler was found chewing on a slug. After the initial disgust, the toddler’s parent asked, “Well, what does it taste like?” “Worms!” was the toddler’s reply.
Overheard: We soon learn how little we know when our children begin to ask questions.
A woman climbed onto a bus with seven children. The bus driver asked her, “Are these all yours, Missus, or is it a picnic?” “They’re all mine,” the woman replied. “And I can assure you that it’s no picnic.”
“What did you ask at school today?” -Richard Feynman
The Parent
“I don’t think that children should owe ya,”
Said a mother from old Babylonia,
“But it’s nice when they heed ya,
Or show that they need ya,
And once in a while, they phone ya.”
by Author Unknown
“Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.” -attributed to Socrates (470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.)
“Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you are a referee.” -David Frost (David Paradine Frost (1939 - 2013)): as quoted in “The Independent” (16 September 1989)
“People should tell your children what life is all about - it’s about work.” -Lauren Bacall (born 1924)
A mother had spent the whole summer in the company of her children, thinking only of their needs. On her return in the fall, she went for the first time in months to an adult dinner party. To her horror, she discovered that, to start a conversation with the distinguished man next to her, she said automatically, “I bet I can finish my soup sooner than you can.”
“You can’t scare me. I have children.” -Author Unknown
“Nobody signs up to have a child with special needs. Then you realize that this is a gift, this child is the light. And if you can nourish that light and let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to God, and that’s grace.” -John C. McGinley
“When you were a kid, you never understood what your parents were going through. Now you’d just like to know how they got through it.” -Author Unknown
“The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.” -John J. Plomp
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
“Nothing has a greater influence on the lives of children than the lives of their parents.” -A. D. Williams (Anthony Douglas Williams)
“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.” -Marcelene Cox
“To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.” -J. B. Priestley (John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984))
“Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.” -John Wilmot (also known as Lord Rochester (1647 - 1680)): as attributed in Herbert Victor Prochnow: “The New Speaker’s Treasury of Wit and Wisdom” (1958)
“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.” -Author Unknown
“There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
“A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise that you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” -John Andrew Holmes
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” -Stacia Tauscher
“Every child is a different kind of flower and all together they make this world a beautiful garden.” -Author Unknown
“Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child’s reason without destroying your own.” -John Mason Brown
“Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.” -Jim Bishop
“Every child is one caring adult away from being a success story.” -Josh Shipp
“Children are people who can remind us of what we were, once upon a time, back before the world became so strange.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“My two-year-old cousin scared us one summer by disappearing during our lakeside vacation. More than a dozen relatives searched the forest and shoreline, and everyone was relieved when we found Alex playing calmly in the woods. ‘Listen to me, Alex,’ his mother said sharply. ‘From now on when you want to go someplace, you tell Mommy first, okay?’ Alex thought about that for a moment and said, ‘Okay, the zoo.’” -Author Unknown
“Child: A random noise generator.” -Author Unknown
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” -Orlando A. Battista (Orlando Aloysius Battista (1917 - 1995))
“Each child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle.” -Author Unknown
“There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.” -Monta Crane (Monta Mildred (Henrichs) Crane (1911 - 2009))
“A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.” -Author Unknown
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” -John W. Whitehead (John Wayne Whitehead (born 1946)): “The Stealing of America” (1 September 1983)
“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.” -Marian Wright Edelman
“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.” -Jean Kerr (1923 - 2003): “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” (1957)
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” -James Baldwin (1924 - 1987): “Nobody Knows My Name” (1961), chapter 3
“It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.” -Joyce Maynard
“Children grow up to be adults, but parents are parents forever!” -Author Unknown
This is MFOL! . . . the website that hasn’t yet decided what it wants to be when it grows up . . .
“The hardest people to convince they are at retirement age are children at bedtime.” -Shannon Fife
“Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.” -Mignon McLaughlin: “The Second Neurotic’s Notebook” (1966)
Young Dianne, only four years old, returned home from nursery school complaining, “Mommy, I’ve got a stomach ache.” “That’s because your stomach is empty,” Sarah, her mother, replied kindly. “You’ll feel better when you have something in it.” She made Dianne a small snack and sure enough, Dianne felt better immediately. Later that afternoon, Dianne’s class tutor dropped by to see Sarah. While she was chatting with Dianne’s mother, she mentioned she’d had a bad headache all day long. Dianne perked up straightaway and announced to her teacher, “That’s because it’s empty. You’d feel much better if you had something in it!”
“Who of us is mature enough for children before they arrive? The value of marriage isn’t that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.” -Peter De Vries
A toddler was found chewing on a slug. After the initial disgust, the toddler’s parent asked, “Well, what does it taste like?” “Worms!” was the toddler’s reply.
Overheard: We soon learn how little we know when our children begin to ask questions.
A woman climbed onto a bus with seven children. The bus driver asked her, “Are these all yours, Missus, or is it a picnic?” “They’re all mine,” the woman replied. “And I can assure you that it’s no picnic.”
“What did you ask at school today?” -Richard Feynman
The Parent
“I don’t think that children should owe ya,”
Said a mother from old Babylonia,
“But it’s nice when they heed ya,
Or show that they need ya,
And once in a while, they phone ya.”
by Author Unknown
“Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.” -attributed to Socrates (470 B.C.E. - 399 B.C.E.)
“Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you are a referee.” -David Frost (David Paradine Frost (1939 - 2013)): as quoted in “The Independent” (16 September 1989)
“People should tell your children what life is all about - it’s about work.” -Lauren Bacall (born 1924)
A mother had spent the whole summer in the company of her children, thinking only of their needs. On her return in the fall, she went for the first time in months to an adult dinner party. To her horror, she discovered that, to start a conversation with the distinguished man next to her, she said automatically, “I bet I can finish my soup sooner than you can.”
“You can’t scare me. I have children.” -Author Unknown
“Nobody signs up to have a child with special needs. Then you realize that this is a gift, this child is the light. And if you can nourish that light and let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to God, and that’s grace.” -John C. McGinley
“When you were a kid, you never understood what your parents were going through. Now you’d just like to know how they got through it.” -Author Unknown
“The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.” -John J. Plomp
“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” -Franklin P. Jones (Franklin Pierce Jones (1908 - 1980))
“Nothing has a greater influence on the lives of children than the lives of their parents.” -A. D. Williams (Anthony Douglas Williams)
“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.” -Marcelene Cox
“To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.” -J. B. Priestley (John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984))
“Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.” -John Wilmot (also known as Lord Rochester (1647 - 1680)): as attributed in Herbert Victor Prochnow: “The New Speaker’s Treasury of Wit and Wisdom” (1958)
“Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.” -Author Unknown
“There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.” -Frank A. Clark (Frank Atherton Clark (1911 - 1991))
“A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise that you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” -John Andrew Holmes
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” -Stacia Tauscher
“Every child is a different kind of flower and all together they make this world a beautiful garden.” -Author Unknown
“Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child’s reason without destroying your own.” -John Mason Brown
“Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.” -Jim Bishop
“Every child is one caring adult away from being a success story.” -Josh Shipp
“Children are people who can remind us of what we were, once upon a time, back before the world became so strange.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“My two-year-old cousin scared us one summer by disappearing during our lakeside vacation. More than a dozen relatives searched the forest and shoreline, and everyone was relieved when we found Alex playing calmly in the woods. ‘Listen to me, Alex,’ his mother said sharply. ‘From now on when you want to go someplace, you tell Mommy first, okay?’ Alex thought about that for a moment and said, ‘Okay, the zoo.’” -Author Unknown
“Child: A random noise generator.” -Author Unknown
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” -Orlando A. Battista (Orlando Aloysius Battista (1917 - 1995))
“Each child is a unique and unrepeatable miracle.” -Author Unknown
“There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.” -Monta Crane (Monta Mildred (Henrichs) Crane (1911 - 2009))
“A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.” -Author Unknown
“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” -John W. Whitehead (John Wayne Whitehead (born 1946)): “The Stealing of America” (1 September 1983)
“Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.” -Marian Wright Edelman
“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.” -Jean Kerr (1923 - 2003): “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” (1957)
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” -James Baldwin (1924 - 1987): “Nobody Knows My Name” (1961), chapter 3
“It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours.” -Joyce Maynard
“Children grow up to be adults, but parents are parents forever!” -Author Unknown
This is MFOL! . . . the website that hasn’t yet decided what it wants to be when it grows up . . .
