"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."

Family, Children, Future, Past, Present

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"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."

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"Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Family, Gratitude, Poverty, Faith

"Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

Family, Parenting, Children, Knowledge, Wisdom

"A new universe is born whenever a new baby is born."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Baby, New Life, Creation

"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Family, Embarrassment, Parents, Children, Truth

"A father gives his child nothing better than a good education."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Family, Father, Education, Gift, Love

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

John Irving, American Novelist

Family, Divorce, Protection, Responsibility

"Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families."

Keith Henson, American Scientist

Family, Lie, Children, Language

"Every corner and room of a house will carry memories, make these the most pleasurable times you shared with your family."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Family, Memory, Happiness, Home

"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Family, Life, Fathers

"If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Family, Mother, Soul, Body

Explore more quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."

Work

"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Man

"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."

Man

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

Thought

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

Burden

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

Happiness

"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."

Love

"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."

Being

"The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one."

Creativity

"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."

Fear