A Quote by Denis Waitley

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

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Denis Waitley
American - Writer
Born: 1933

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

Jonas Salk

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can give. And it's not a gift we often give to children. We expect it of them, but we don't necessarily give it back.

Jason Reynolds

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

Carl Sagan

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Jackie Kennedy

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

Matthew Knisely

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

Stormie Omartian

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

Mary Louisa Molesworth

It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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

Dalai Lama

My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations.

Trista Sutter

You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.

Josephine Humphreys

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

Anne Sweeney

Temple mirrors of eternity remind us that each human being has "divine nature and destiny"; that "sacred ordinances and covenants available in holy temples make it possible for individuals to return to the presence of God and for families to be united eternally"; and that, growing together in love and faithfulness, we can give children roots and wings.

Gerrit W. Gong

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