25 result(s) for Birds Leaving The Nest Quotes.
"The greatest gift you can give your children is the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."
"When they are little, parents encourage them to walk and talk and to do all sorts of frightening things. Then when they are grown up we try to hold them back. It isn't right."
"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."
"Don't handicap your children by making things easy for them."
"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
"The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are equipped to do certain things, and they are equipped not to do others."
"First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."
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"Let your children go if you want to keep them."
"To be fully human we must be always on the way to being something other than what we are."
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
"Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something."
"The hardest part of being a parent is watching your children suffer."
"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."
"The best way to prepare children for life is to let them experience it."
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children: One of these is roots, the other, wings."
"If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others."
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
"Sometimes our hearts have to break so new light can get in."
"The soul is healed by being with children."
"A child is a beam of sunlight from the infinite and eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice -- but as yet unstained."
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"The greatest thing you can do for your children and the world is to be who you say you are."
"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why children on swings like to be pushed - which is, of course, only that they may learn the arc of limitation."
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep."
