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We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.


Henry Ward Beecher

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We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
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which the soul looks out.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. -Henry Ward Beecher.
HENRY WARD BEECHER No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beech...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.
PEGGY TONEY HORTON Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Especially for kids like us: we were brought here, we didn't have a choice. Our parents risked their...
ERNESTO MEDINA Everything that we have we owe to our parents, never forget that !
ANIL GUPTA When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Pegg...
PEGGY TONEY HORTON We don’t truly appreciate what we have until it’s gone… We don’t really appreciate something...
ROY T. BENNETT We are the people our parents warned us about.
SOURCE UNKNOWN We are the people our parents warned us about.
JIMMY BUFFETT We are the people our parents warned us about.
JIMMY BUFFET Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
JACK LOWDEN The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this...
GARY VAYNERCHUK The people who run the circus kidnapped us from our parents. Since we got here, we have all been wor...
MAGDA M. OLCHAWSKA Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
DEB CALETTI As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.
NEIL GAIMAN I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER This is going to take a community effort. We know we need a well-educated workforce for us to be com...
BOB LOVINGOOD Parents of recovered children, and I've met hundreds, all share the same experience of doubters ...
JENNY MCCARTHY We are what our parents didn't want US to be!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU We already have a bunch of people's parents coming to help celebrate the event. We are glad parents ...
ASHLEY DAVIS Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
HENRY BEECHER If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Al, he knows ladders like the back of his hand. That's the thing about our family, we love to work t...
OKESENE ALE We have good parents. One of the reasons we decided to do this is that we have such good parents.
BOB BATHALON On matters of race, South Carolina has a tough history. We all know that. Many of us have seen it in...
NIKKI HALEY We are all very deeply the children of our parents and their parents. Far more than we generally rea...
BILL DRAYTON With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents...
MICHELLE OBAMA The way we speak of our parents teaches our children the way they will speak of us to our grandchild...
GENE CRAWFORD Foster parents often model parenting skills for the biological parents and may become friends of the...
BARBARA ZIMMERMAN We're based on our friends' couches and in our old rooms at our parents' houses. What we have in com...
CHARLOTTE COOPER Four years ago we began rebuilding our lives without Matt. We felt part of the system failed for Mat...
KEVIN EPLING Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My ...
ANNE LAMOTT We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our chil...
KATHRYN HARRISON We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find ...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN [Being pregnant again] just means everything to us, ... When we lost the twins, we thought we may ne...
BOB PACK Children of worst parents, grow up to become best parents.
ABDUL MUJIB WARDHA It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN We want parents to know they can really become allies and partners so their students can do their be...
MARGARET LAFLEUR We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting i...
LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe...
DAN BURTON Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that w...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b...
SAM LEVENSON We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers t...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD Feast of Clare of Assisi, Founder of the Order of Minoresses (Poor Clares), 1253 Commemoration of J...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN We know some of the children have talked in school saying their parents were picked up.
SUSANA ALMANZA Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought ...
C. JOYBELL C. Two ways nature teaches us to forgive our parents;The act of delivering a child & The act of rearing...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more lo...
JOHN RUSKIN We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR My parents were like June and Ward Cleaver; there was nothing dysfunctional about them.
KELLY RIPA I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.
TAYLOR HANSON We want people to become educated about our water resources, and we believe that when we teach kids,...
EILEEN TRAMONTANA I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't hav...
RYAN COOGLER We need to remember that we won?t always be playing for our parents.
BROOKS YANG The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our paren...
NANCY FRIDAY We feel a responsibility to our parents.
GEORGE LEYLEGIAN He always told us to carry ourselves with class. Like, every Friday after practice, he would tell us...
MARK REDLINGSHAFER I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a goo...
DAVE BARRY There are many things in life that can only be really understood after we have become parents who ha...
TOBA BETA We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to ...
MICHAEL BENNETT The play is funny. And people love baseball. But there's a moral lesson. 'Rounding Third' is particu...
BARTLETT SHER I told her a lot of parents don't know about this. I'm a student, I didn't know this. In health clas...
DANIELLE HIBLER A lot of parents who come [to our classes] are parents of little kids. That's what we want. We want ...
DIANE KELLY Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forge...
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN I'm glad we would have the vehicle to allow parents to call in and help us.
BOB CHILMONIK We [should] sic' our active parents on the legislators.
DEBRA ROBINSON Ha! Kids! You have no idea what you put your parents through, either. Wait till you have your own, y...
TESS GERRITSEN You kind of become surrogate parents.
DAN CASTRO We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries...
LEMONY SNICKET Well, it's true for every elder sibling, We have this supremely potent weapon "parents " on our side...
PARUL WADHWA Certainly, parents are very fortunate to be parents, to have children and to be employed. But we hav...
BARBARA SCHNEIDER The Family Tree Award was designed to recognize excellence and leadership on behalf of LGBT parents ...
JENNIFER CHRISLER We need parents to be parents, not friends. Parents need to set guidelines.
LEO MILLER We have great kids in our program and we would not tackle anything like this if we didn't have confi...
ANTHONY GIBSON I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future ...
ROB REINER As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of the...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Those who do not cherish affection for their parents, spouses and children and for their homes, vill...
KIM JONG-UN This study is indeed good news. But we must never let our guard down, especially in educating new pa...
JEFFREY RUNGE Any time you see a 20year old become a wonderkid or celebrity in life,know for sure that the parents...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own i...
PICO IYER We now have an opportunity for our generation to make our mark on human history. Our parents and gra...
GEORGE WHITESIDES Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the th...
STANLEY H CATH Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the worl...
MAMIE GUMMER My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vo...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH Our goal is to stop abuse before it starts and break the cycle of abuse. We want to assist new paren...
FLORA JACKSON None of us as parents brought up our children to be this way, ... We all have some turn out to be ba...
MARSHA KIGHT We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
FRENCH PROVERB The parents, possibly intoxicated, abducted the child last night. We know both parents have an exten...
LARRY LONG We don't have very many foster parents.
JUDY OSTERHAGE There's a medical side of that and a recovery side for the parents. We don't know about the toxic ef...
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HENRY WARD BEECHER Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himse...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they wo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a h...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."
HENRY WARD BEECHER A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some hav...
HENRY WARD BEECHER As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden withou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and wou...
HENRY WARD BEECHER You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 y...
HENRY WARD BEECHER There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...
HENRY WARD BEECHER A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had ...
HENRY WARD BEECHER The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHER Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
HENRY WARD BEECHER In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things...
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