Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Do your kids a favor - don't have any.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.
Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.
Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.
If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: 'Checkout Time is 18 years.'
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.
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