“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” – John F. Kennedy
“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.” – David Bly
“Children need models rather than critics.” – Joseph Joubert
“Parenting is a lifetime job and does not stop when a child grows up.” – Jake Slope
“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.” – Jane D. Hull
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.” – Peggy O’Mara
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” – C.S. Lewis
“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley
“Behind every young child who believes in himself is a parent who believed first.” – Matthew L. Jacobson
“Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.” – Anonymous
“To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” – Josh Billings
“A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.” – Robert Brault
“Children spell love T-I-M-E.” – Dr. A. Witham
“There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So just be a real one.” – Sue Atkins
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” – Angela Schwindt
“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.” – Billy Graham
“Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.” – Jess Lair
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.” – Chinese Proverb
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglass
“The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.” – Jane Blaustone
“To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
“Children will listen to you after they feel listened to.” – Jane Nelsen
“Love your children unconditionally. Your children are the greatest gift from God you will ever receive.” – Anonymous
“The sign of great parenting is not the child's behavior. The sign of truly great parenting is the parent's behavior.” – Andy Smithson
“What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange, it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum
“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands.” – Lisa Wingate
“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.” – Bill Ayers
“The best thing to spend on your children is your time.” – Louise Hart
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” – Sophocles
“Parenting is not giving your child everything they want. It is giving them what they need to become a good person.” – Anonymous
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” – Billy Graham
“There is no greater role in life than that of being a parent.” – Anonymous
“Children are the keys of paradise.” – Eric Hoffer
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
“Parenthood: All love begins and ends there.” – Robert Browning
“The greatest gift you can give your children is your presence.” – Jesse Jackson
“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.” – Plato
“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.” – Wayne Dyer
“The love between a parent and child is forever and always.” – Anonymous
“When you look at your life, the greatest happiness is family happiness.” – Joyce Brothers
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The soul is healed by being with children.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.” – Anonymous
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“It's 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
“The greatest gift I ever had, came from God; I call him Dad!” – Anonymous
“A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.” – Robert Brault
“Parenting is the toughest job on earth.” – Anonymous
“Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll
“A parent’s love is beyond measure.” – Anonymous
“Love is staying up all night with a sick child — or a healthy adult.” – David Frost
“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” – Elaine Heffner
“When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.” – The Talmud
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.” – Honore de Balzac
“In the end, the most important thing is not the skills we teach our children, but the wisdom we pass on to them.” – Anonymous
“A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” – Victor Hugo
“What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.” – P.D. James
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore Hesburgh
“A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad.” – John Andrew Holmes
“Children are a great comfort in your old age — and they help you reach it faster, too.” – Lionel Kauffman
“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.” – Billy Graham
“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson
“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” – Oscar Wilde
“The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – O. A. Battista
“The parenting moments that are most meaningful do not make our children happy in the moment, they mold their behavior so they can be happy with themselves in the future.” – Anonymous
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