Inspiration and Encouragement- Favorite Quotes
7/14/2008
"Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength." Maya Angelou (American Poet)
"Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord." Ephesians 6:4
"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents."
Henry Ward Beecher (US Congregational Minister)
"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them." Leo F. Buscaglia (Author)
"To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become in a special way, the servant of the others." Pope John Paul II
"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."
Erma Bombeck (Author, Humorist)
"A wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future." Herbert Spencer (British Philosopher)
"It is much easier to become a father than to be one." Unknown
"By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder- infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember not in the battle field, but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father Who art in Heaven.' "
Douglas McArthur (U.S. Army General)
"One night a father overheard his son pray: 'Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is.' Later that night, the father prayed, 'Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants to be.' " Unknown
"It is a wise father who knows his own child." William Shakespeare (English playwright)
"I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign on each of their rooms: 'Checkout time is in 18 years.' " Erma Bombeck (Author, Humorist)
"A child, like your stomach, does not need all that you can afford to give it."
Frank Clark (Author)
"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." Dorothy Canfield (Author)
Current Favorite: "Parents are traffic signs that are always in our blind spots." Jeremy Johnson (Author)
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