Quotes- Parents

"A child looks up at the stars and wonders. Great fathers put a child on his shoulders and helps them to grab a star."

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark." ~Chinese Proverb

"A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall, but instead,

picks you up, brushes you off and lets you try again. 

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." ~Unknown

"A great teacher never strives to explain his vision-he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself." ~Reverend E. Inman

"A hundred years from now...it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child."

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." ~Horace Mann

"Always choose to do what you will remember ten years from now." ~Richard A. Moran

"As a loving mother cares for her children, they bloom like flowers in a well-tended garden for all the world to enjoy!" ~Jeannine Carroll  (Dedicated to Amy Diaz, the best mother I know !)

"Being a mother is learning about strengths you didn't know you had...and dealing with fears you didn't know existed."  Linda Wooten

"Beware of the barrenness of an overcrowded life."

"By simply being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before." ~Edwin Elliot

"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones.  A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you." ~Shannon L. Adler

"Children are God's apostles, day by day
Sent forth to preach of love, and hope, and peace." ~James Russell Lowell

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

"Daily we come across opportunities to serve those around us and become God's hands and heart at work on earth." ~Jeannine Carroll

"Do something today that your future self will thank you for." 

"Do you know how to tell a true friend?  When they talk behind your back, they say good things!"

"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." ~Jack Canfield

"Each day do more than you have to do-with a cheerful, positive outlook!  Give of yourself more than you've ever done before-knowing that your returns in life must  be in direct proportion to what you give."

"Each of us has a choice about how to love the world in our unique way." ~Bernie Siegel, M.D.

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."~William Butler Yeats

"Effort is a choice everyone can make." ~Jeannine Carroll

"Emblazon these words on your mind: Learning is more effective when it's fun." ~Peter Kline

"Enjoy the little things in life for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things."~Kurt Vonnegut

"Every day we are called to do small things with great love."- Mother Teresa

"Everybody is a genius.  But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." ~Albert Einstein

"Expect great things from God.  Attempt great things for God." ~William Carey

"Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it."

"For every minute you are angry with someone, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back." ~Napoleon Hill

"God does not believe in atheists."

"Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration." ~Matthew Arnold

"Greatness means having pride in yourself, being happy with yourself, knowing you've worked for something and couldn't have done anything more.  That is greatness itself." ~Shawn Johnson- Olympic Gymnast

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."- Mark Twain

"How many cares we lose when we decide not to be something, but to be someone." ~Unknown

"I am convinced that the greatest legacy we can leave our children are happy memories:  those precious moments so much like pebbles on the beach that are plucked from the white sand and placed in tiny boxes that lay undisturbed on tall shelves until one day they spill out and time repeats itself, with joy and sweet sadness, in the child now an adult." ~Og Mandino

"I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious." ~Albert Einstein

"I have seen so many good deeds- people helped, lives improved- because someone cared.  Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place." ~Rosalynn Carter

"I hear and I forget.
 I see and I remember.
 I do and I understand." ~Chinese Proverb

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel!"  Maya Angelou

"If better is possible, good is no longer an option."

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

"If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away.  Try to lighten it." - Frank Tyger

"If you love life, do not squander time.  That is the stuff life is made of!" ~Ben Franklin

"If you see someone without a smile, give him yours."

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."  Goethe 

"In youth we learn, in age we understand." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light, it scattered the night and made the day worth living." ~T. Scott Fitzgerald

James Baldwin talking about youngsters:  "They've never been interested in listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." 

“Kind hearts are the gardens,  kind thoughts are the roots,  kind words are the flowers,  kind deeds are the fruits.  Take care of your garden  and keep out the weeds.  Fill it with sunshine,  kind works and kind deeds."                                                                   ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers." ~Kahil Gibran "Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures to enjoy others infinitely better." ~Blaise Pascal "Let my heart be broken with the things that break the heart of God." ~Robert W. Pierce "Let such teach others who themselves excel." ~Alexander Pope "Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child, listen to the DON'TS-listen to the SHOULDN'TS, the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS-listen to the NEVER HAVES.  Then listen close to me-anything can happen, child.  ANYTHING can be." ~Shel Silverstein "Love is what's in the room with you (on Christmas morning) when you stop opening presents and listen." "Most people think greatness or being great  is external to themselves, that it's something you acquire or add on.  That is not true.  Greatness is something that is unearthed and cultivated from within."~Lewis Howes  "My father didn't tell me how to live... He lived, and let me watch him do it." ~Clarence Kelland "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person.  He believed in me." ~Jim Valvano "Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.  God may have been waiting centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."  John Andrew Holmes "Next to eternal life, the most precious gift that our Father in Heaven can bestow upon man,  is his children." ~David G. MaKay "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." ~Aesop (The Lion & The Mouse) "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Anna Eleanor Roosevelt "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." - Charles Dickens "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." "Normal day, let me hold you while I may, for it will not always be so.  One day I shall want, more than all the world, your return." ~Mary Jean Irion "Nowadays, parents take a "problem" child to a psychiatrist to talk through difficulties.  Granddad used the do-it-yourself method and took the kid fishing." - Eva Shaw "One of the greatest sources of energy is pride in what you are doing."~Spokes "One loving heart sets another on fire." ~Augustine

"Our children are messengers we send to a time we will not see." 

"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life."~Albert Einstein

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, and in it's place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." ~Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory 

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never the same."

"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation."

"The best ability is dependability.

"The days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them silently away." ~Emerson

"The future is the time when you'll wish you'd done what you aren't doing now."

"The important thing is this: To be ready at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." ~Charles Dubois

"The more that you read, the more things you will know.  The more you learn, the more places you'll go." ~Dr. Seuss I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men (and women) to do nothing."  Edmund Burke

The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary. 

"The saddest words of tongue or pen are these four words - it might have been." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world." ~William Gurnall

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit." ~Nelson Henderson

"The world is like a mirror, frown at it, and it frowns at you.  Smile, and it smiles, too!" - Herbert Samuel
"There is no such thing as a "self-made" man.  We are made up of thousands of others.  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success."~George Matthews Adams

"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person.  True nobility is being superior to your former self." ~Hindu Proverb

"There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it behooves none of us to speak ill of the rest of us."

Think in terms of consequences rather than convenience.

"Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent." ~Carl Sandburg

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, dream, discover." ~H. Jackson Brown

"Waking up every day and saying 'Okay. Today I'm going to move mountains.'" ~Stephen Kofler

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.  Watch your words; they become actions.  Watch your actions; they become habits.  Watch your habits; they become character.  Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny." ~Upanishads

"We may not have it all together, but together we have it all."

"We must view young people not as bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit." ~Robert H. Shaffer

Well done is better than well said."- Benjamin Franklin

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." ~Aristotle

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
 Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." ~Goethe

"When people are put into positions slightly above what they would expect to achieve, they're apt to excel."~Richard Bronson

"When you walk what you talk...people listen."

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." ~White Elk

"Where your talents and the worlds needs cross, there lies your vocation." ~Aristotle

"With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun." ~Unknown

You can get everything in life you want, if you help enough other people get what they want."

"You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of it."- Lorene Workman

“You can’t help everybody, but you can help a few.  It’s that few that God will hold us accountable for.” ~Bob Pierce

"You can tell the size of a man by the size of a thing that makes him mad."  Adlai E. Stevenson

"You may have tangible wealth untold.
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me."  ~Strickland Gillian

"You were born an original.
Don't die a copy." ~John Mason