A few of my favorites…
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
~Elizabeth Stone
It is one thing to be dedicated to the idea of parenthood and quite another to be dedicated to the practice of it.
~Unknown
Children should be seen, not hurt.
~a billboard in Georgia
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
~Chinese proverb
The only place where you are irreplaceable is at home.
~a church marquee in Kentucky
Parents are pals nowadays because they don’t have the courage to be parents.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Everything you do is a self portrait. Make excellence your autograph.
~my version of Jessica Guidobono
A child is the only known substance from which a responsible adult can be made.
~Unknown
The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.
~George Santayana
We have not inherited the earth from our fathers. We are borrowing it from our children.
~Native American proverb
And that is best of all, Ceddie – it is better than everything else, that the world should be a little better because a person has lived – even ever so little better, dearest.
~from “Little Lord Fauntleroy” by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mom and Dad are the names for God on the lips and in the hearts of children.
~William Makepeace Thackeray
So much of what we know of love we learn at home.
~Unknown
A few of my own…
The mission of a parent for life is to become unnecessary. The challenge is to do so without becoming unwanted.
~Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman
You can only do what you know. The more you know, the more you can do.
~Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman
What a difference three letters make…earth without ‘art’ is just ‘eh.’
~Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman
Art is at the heart of eARTh.
~Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman
It is not how many years you have lived, but how you have lived those years that matters.
~Carolyn Waterbury-Tieman
