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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."
"The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me."
"Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting, Focus on the uniqueness of every Child."
"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."
"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."
"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."
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"Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires."
"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."
"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it."
"Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans."
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
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