If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. — Abigail Van Buren Copy Share Image
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get… — Chris Cagle Copy Share Image
When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I’m the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If… — Lee Salk Copy Share Image
America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless... but now the security… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
If I were money-motivated, I would spread insidious lies that marijuana is dangerous and addictive and leads to dancing with white women,… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Your children should have it impressed upon them that their adult life-style will bear very little resemblance to yours and that they… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people… — Gough Whitlam Copy Share Image
Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
If you are trying to appear calm and collected on the outside when actually you are feeling upset and angry, your children… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this,"… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Think long and hard about the way you invest your children's time. Time is treasure. And where your time investment is, there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only you know your circumstances, your energy level, the needs of your children, and the emotional demands of your other obligations. Be… — Chieko N. Okazaki Copy Share Image
You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants… — Derek Williams Copy Share Image
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
It should be a crime to abandon your child, and it's not. It would be wonderful if it could be criminalized. — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Children copy their parents, friends, and teachers. They will develop the habits of the people around them. So if you want your… — Baba Hari Dass Copy Share Image
Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I’ve noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children. — Lars von Trier Copy Share Image
If you're not sure you could love your children, please don't have them, because they might grow up and kill us. — John Waters Copy Share Image
To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats… — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
