8 citações sobre o que é ser pai ou mãe / 8 quotes about what it means to be a parent

 

Charles West Cope, "O hush Thee, my baby", 1874 

1.  “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”

- Dr. Seuss, writer and cartoonist

2. “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, teacher and author

3. “Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

– Jesse Jackson, American civil rights activist and Baptist minister 

4. "There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child." 

- Anne Lamott, novelist and nonfiction writer

  
5. “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”

- The 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader and advocate for peace

6. “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, diarist

7. "Parenthood… It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last." 

- Peter Krause, actor

8. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”

- Lady Bird Johnson, Former First Lady of the United States