Quotes That Make You Think...4
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
- John Wilmot
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
- William D. Tammeus
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Oscar Wilde,
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
- Oprah Winfrey
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
- Haim Ginott
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
- Lionel Kauffman
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Chinese Proverb
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.
- P.J. O'Rourke
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
- Sam Levenson
- John Wilmot
You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.
- William D. Tammeus
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Oscar Wilde,
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
- Oprah Winfrey
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
- Haim Ginott
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
- Lionel Kauffman
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
- Chinese Proverb
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather
Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud "snort" noises.) I don't know why parents don't do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you're a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won't have his friends hanging around your house all the time.
- P.J. O'Rourke
Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
- Sam Levenson
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