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Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Alice Meynell
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The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: "Never hurt anybody.".
Denis Breeze
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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.
Thomas J. Cottle
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There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Monta Crane
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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
Nancy Mitford
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The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
Ray L. Wilbur
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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
Georges Bernanos
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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity.... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Marcelene Cox
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The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
Frank A. Clark
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A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.
Robert Penn Warren
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. -Tom Savage.
Tom Savage
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Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the product is defective, she can't return it for a refund.
Carol Evertt
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