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“Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.”
Dr. Haim Ginott
“Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
Richard L. Evans
“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop”
Mark Twain
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas”
Paula Poundstone
“Have you any idea how many kids it takes to turn off one light in the kitchen? Three. It takes one to say, "What light?" and two more to say, "I didn't turn it on."”
Erma Bombeck
“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
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life”
Sophocles
“If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.”
“We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.”
Phyllis Diller
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
Jesse Jackson
