Kids Growing Up Sayings and Quotes

Kids Growing Up Sayings and Quotes

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.    

— C.S. Lewis


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.    

— Anne Frank


Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.    

— Mitch Albom

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We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.    

— Stacia Tauscher


While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about.    

— Angela Schwindt


Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.    

— Phyllis Diller


To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.    

— Euripides


I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!    

— Sally Ride


Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.    

— B. B. King


When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.    

— Patrick Rothfuss


Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.    

— J.M. Barrie


Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.    

— Virginia Woolf


A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark    

— Chinese Proverb


Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them    

— Lady Bird Johnson


Kids: They dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music    

— William Stafford


Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers; the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.    

— The Wonder Years


The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.    

— Alden Nowlan


You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.    

— John J. Plomp


Children are the Shades of both mother and father, whether poor or rich every one had a wonderful creative life growing up with them.    

— Kishore Bansal


Dear Mom, You get mad at me for not acting my age, and then start crying because I'm 'growing up too fast.' Sincerely, pick one!    

— unknown


Old enough to see that it's wrong, young enough to do it anyway!    

— Abhishek Tiwari


If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.    

— P.D. James


Motherhood is an early retirement position. Your children do grow up.    

— Colleen Parro

Quotes And Sayings For My Baby Girl

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“A child is God’s opinion that life should go on.”
~ Unknown
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“In the eyes of a child…there is joy, there is laughter… there is hope, there is trust, a chance to shape the future…”
~ Air Supply
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“In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.”
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.”
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
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“Some women are dripping with diamonds, some women are dripping with pearls, look at me, lucky me, I’m dripping with little girls.”
 ~ From the musical “Little Orphan Annie”
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A baby girl…
one of the most beautiful miracles in life,
one of the greatest joys we can ever know,
and one of the reasons why
there is a little extra sunshine, laughter and happiness
in your world today.
 ~ Unknown
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A baby is a blank check made payable to the human race.
~ Barbara Christine Seifert
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A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.
 ~ Richard Steele
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A girl is
Innocence playing in the mud,
Beauty standing on its head,
and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
~ Alan Beck
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A wee bit of heaven
drifted down from above-
A handful of happiness,
a heart full of love.
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The mystery of life,
so sacred and sweet-
The giver of joy
so deep and complete.
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Precious and priceless,
so lovable, too-
The world’s sweetest miracle,
baby, is you.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
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Sugar and spice
and all things that are nice
That’s what little girls are made of
~ Unknown
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A world to be born under your footsteps…
~ Saint-John Perse
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Babies are such a nice way to start people.
 ~ Don Herold
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Baby’s fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.  ~ Alice C.D. Riley

Funny Quotes About Dysfunctional Families

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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
-W.C. Fields
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Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
-Unknown
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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
-George Burns
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Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
-Cary Grant

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For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
 -Jeff Foxworthy
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I think a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
-Mary Karr
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I grew up with six brothers. That’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.
-Bob Hope
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family: We give them to each other.
-Lois McMaster Bujold
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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
-George Carlin
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When I was ten, my family moved to Downer’s Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.
 -Emo Phillips
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Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.
-Jerry Seinfeld
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Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with someone long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.
-Chelsea Handle
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Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It’s either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it’s Colin.
 -Tim Vine
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Few mistakes can be made by a mother-in-law who is willing to baby-sit.
-Anonymous
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To encourage my little kid to eat something, I’d sometimes say: “Just pretend it’s sand.”
 -Anonymous
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
-Sam Levenson
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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern… like bad wallpaper.
 -Friedrich Nietzsche

Mother And Daughter Sayings and Quotes

A mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually vaccinates her daughter against low self-esteem.    

— Naomi Wolf
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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.    

— Victoria Secunda
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The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [ ] the stronger the daughter.    

— Anita Diamant

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As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.    

— Kristin Hannah
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Mothers of daughters are daughters of mothers and have remained so, in circles joined to circles, since time began.    

— Signe Hammer
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A mother's treasure is her daughter.    

— Catherine Pulsifer
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Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.    

— Unknown
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We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.    

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.    

— Irish Saying
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The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.    

— Wynonna Judd
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters.    

— Portuguese Proverb
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Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.    

— Katherine Howe
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A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.    

— Kristin Hannah
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Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.    

— Elmina S. Taylor
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I am not a perfect mother and I will never be. You are not a perfect daughter and you will never be. But put us together and we will be the best mother and daughter we would ever be.    

— Zoraida Pesante

Cute Quotes And Sayings About Family

I know family comes first, but shouldn’t that mean after breakfast?
-Jeff Lindsay
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Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie – not perfect but who’s complaining?
-Robert Brault
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The family – that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.
-Dodie Smith

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That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.
-Deb Caletti
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I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.
-Anthony Anderson
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Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
-Gail Lumet Buckley
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Family is a blessing. – Just keep saying that when you are irritated by something a family member says.
-Marcelina Hardy
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I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.
-Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford
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If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable – each segment distinct.
-Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.
-Nancy Mitford
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In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.
-Anna Quidlen
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Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
-Evan Esar
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Families, can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em ..
-Tate Hallaway
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Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
-Unknown

Inspirational Quotes about Family Time

"In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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"At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.”
— Barbara Bush

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"Family time is sacred time and should be protected and respected.”
— Boyd K. Packer
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"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse."
— Unknown
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"Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won’t tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff.”
— Catherine M. Wallace
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"Family is the most important thing in the world.”
—  Princess Diana
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"If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”
— F. Burton Howard
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"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”
— Barbara Bush
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"Some of the most important conversations I’ve ever had occurred at my family’s dinner table.”
 — Bob Ehrlich
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"When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.” Anna Quindlen
"Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
 — Richard L. Evans
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"Happiness comes from unselfish service. And happy homes are only those where there is a daily striving to make sacrifices for each other’s happiness.”
— Harold B. Lee
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"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.”
— Barbara Bush
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"Family: like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one."
— Unknown
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"We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun."
 — Unknown
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"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money."
— Abigail Van Buren
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"You always have time for the things you put first."
— Unknown
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"Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.”
— Michael J. Fox
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"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."
— Angela Schwindt
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"When you love what you have, you have everything you need."
— Unknown