Children

(1379 votes)   Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Richard L. Evans

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(603 votes)   If evolution were true, mothers would have more than two hands. Only God gave us eyes in the back of our heads and the power to tune things out.

Courtney S.
Mom

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(498 votes)   No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

Jeremy Taylor
1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer

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(470 votes)   The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

John Lennon

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(458 votes)   You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Franklin P. Jones

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(451 votes)   Children need models rather than critics.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(431 votes)   The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(415 votes)   Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are.

Louisa May Alcott

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(397 votes)   Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones

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(393 votes)   Ask the young, they know everything!

Joubert

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(385 votes)   It's fun being a kid.

Bradford Arthur Angier

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(355 votes)   I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

John Adams

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(346 votes)   And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

Woody Allen

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(335 votes)   Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.

Franklin P. Jones

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(327 votes)   Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.

Joyce Armor

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