Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you.

—Daniel Raeburn

More quotations tagged with “children”

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

—Bruce Barton

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

—Anna Quindlen

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

—Anatole Broyard

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.

—Randy K. Milholland

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