Quotes are a fun (and enlightening!) way to see how others view “the greatest job in the world” an of course, children. Here are some of the funniest and most profound:
Bill Cosby
“My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.”
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.”
“Some authority on parenting once said, “Hold them very close and then let them go.” This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in).”
Peter de Vries
“There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you”
Alvin Toffler
“Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.”
Charles Dickens
“Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.”
Anne Frank
“How true Daddy’s words were when he said: All children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. ”
Margaret Fuller
“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”
GOETHE
“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
“Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves.”
And my personal favourite:
Unknown
“A hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank-account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the make of car I drove. But the world may be different, because I was important in the life of a child.”
Originally posted on August 15, 2006 @ 3:44 pm
