Quotable Quotes by Editors Of Reader's Digest

really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
    â€” S OPHIA L OREN
    Women and Beauty
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    Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
    â€” H ARRIET B EECHER S TOWE
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    Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
    â€” L OTTE B AILYN
    The Woman in America
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    The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship in sail, a woman after the birth of her child.
    â€” I RISH PROVERB
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    Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
    â€” J OHN C IARDI
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    You never get over being a child, long as you have a mother to go to.
    â€” S ARAH O RNE J EWETT
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    A good father is a little bit of a mother.
    â€” L EE S ALK
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    The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
    â€” T HEODORE H ESBURGH
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    One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
    â€” G EORGE H ERBERT
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    My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
    â€” C LARENCE B UDINGTON K ELLAND
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    You don’t raise heroes; you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.
    â€” W ALTER S CHIRRA S R.
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    The beauty of “spacing” children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones—which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
    â€” S YDNEY J . H ARRIS
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    The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks most deeply and draws more blood.
    â€” M AYA A NGELOU
    All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
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    It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
    â€” A NNE S EXTON
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    Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
    â€” A LVIN T OFFLER
    Future Shock
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    The word no carries a lot more meaning when spoken by a parent who also knows how to say yes.
    â€” J OYCE M AYNARD
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Parenting
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    Lucky parents who have fine children usually have lucky children who have fine parents.
    â€” J AMES A . B REWER
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    Grandchildren are God’s way of compensating us for growing old.
    â€” M ARY H . W ALDRIP
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    Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
    â€” D OUG L ARSON
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    A grandmother is a person with too much wisdom to let that stop her from making a fool of herself over her grandchildren.
    â€” P HIL M OSS
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National Enquirer
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    I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children—and what an inhuman world, without the aged.
    â€” S AMUEL T AYLOR C OLERIDGE
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    There’s nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in heredity.
    â€” D OUG L ARSON
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    The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
    â€” S AM L EVENSON
    You Don’t Have to Be in “Who’s Who” to Know What’s What
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    Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
    â€” A LEX H ALEY
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The Maroon
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    I don’t know who my grandfather was. I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
    â€” A BRAHAM L INCOLN
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    C HILDREN ARE THE LIVING MESSAGES  . . .
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    Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
    â€” J OHN W . W HITEHEAD
    The Stealing of America
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    My best creation is my children.
    â€” D IANE V ON F URSTENBERG
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    Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
    â€” R ABINDRANATH T AGORE
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    Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
    â€” S OPHOCLES
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    It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it