I wanted her to have the full, long life that every parent promises his or her child by the simple act of bringing that child into the world.
– Cristina Henriquez
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- A good parent is not someone that knows how to be a good parent, but knows how to learn how to be a good parent. – Gary Edward Gedall
- Life has been dark but full of light; sad, but full of joy; disappointing, but full of hope; needy but full of plenty, sick but full of health. – Reverend Ada Slaton Bonds
- Spanking a child is about the parent not the child. The child will learn more from positive correction than physical manipulation. – Asa Don Brown
- Having a child who is struggling doesn’t make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn’t make your child a bad kid. – Ann Douglas
- Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace? – Ann Voskamp
- A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY – Roald Dahl
- Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child. – John SC Abbott
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- White bridal dresses stunning and pure, bringing promises, binding two souls together, life forces connected, holding the same vision. – Jennifer Lynch
- When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. – Holy Bible
- I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them. – Neil Gaiman
- I saw you, and I wanted to be close to you. I wanted you to let me in. I wanted to know you in a way no one else did. I wanted you, all of you. – Becca Fitzpatrick
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- The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- The world promises you so much…and leaves you empty. God’s promises are for real and forever. – Beth Moore Jones
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- Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet? – Flix J Palma
- There’s the parent you want and the parent you have. – Karen Harrington
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- There is no worse parent than an unhappy parent! – Rossana Condoleo
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- I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war than threaten to steal a man’s soul. – Christina Henriquez
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- Such a simple thing, kindness. Such a simple thing. A nice word of encouragement, given when needed. An act of friendship. A passing smile. – RJ Palacio