Life Quotes

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
-Fred Astaire

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
-Maria Montessori

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
-Benjamin Disraeli

Give a man a fish
and you feed him for a day.
Teach him how to fish
and you feed him for a lifetime.
-Lao-tzu

You must be the change
you wish to see in the world.
-Mohandas Ghandi

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
-Rita Mae Brown

The first duty of love is to listen.
-Paul Tillich

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
-Bill Cosby

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
-Randall Jarrell

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-John Lennon

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
-Henry Drummond

If you bungle raising your children,
I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
-Jackie Kennedy Onassis

Age is no guarantee of maturity.
-Lawana Blackwell

Always go to other people's funerals;
Otherwise they won't come to yours.
-Yogi Berra

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-Dave Barry

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
-Satchel Paige

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