“Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.”
“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
“So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.”
“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”
“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.”
“When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.”
“You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.”
“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.”
“The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.”
“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”
“Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?”
“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.”
“We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.”
“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it''”
“Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.”
“Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.”
“A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to live in.”
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
“There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.”
“You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.”
“The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.”
“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.”
“There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.”
“Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.”
“The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.”
“Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.”