"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.'" - Bible, Mark 10:14

"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity." - Christian Nestell Bovee

"There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone." - Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris

"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." - Sir Winston Churchill, speech (1943)

"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home." - Bill Cosby

"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children." - Clarence S. Darrow

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." - Edward, Duke of Windsor, quoted in Look

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty." - George Eliot, Romola

"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble." - Dennis Fakes

"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler." - W. C. Fields

"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." - Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn." - Eric Hoffer

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision." - Aldous Huxley

"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength." - Charles Lamb

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it." - Harry S. Truman

"A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother." - Mark Twain, letter (1876)

"Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver." - Unknown

"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents." - Unknown

"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it." - George F. Will, in Newsweek

"The Child is father of the Man." - William Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up

"Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death." - FRANCIS BACON, Essays

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." - JAMES BALDWIN, Nobody Knows My Name

"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength." - BIBLE, Psalms 8:2

"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." - BIBLE, Mark 10:14

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life

"Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. . .
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."
- KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet

"We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Hermann und Dorothea

"Children need models more than they need critics." - JOSEPH JOUBERT, Pensées

"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age
The child is grown, and puts away childish things.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Nobody that matters, that is."
- EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!"
- SHAKESPEARE, King Lear

"It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays

"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip.

"I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information." - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip

"It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins." - Chinese Proverb

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself." - Gibran, Kahlil

"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Jones, Franklin P.

"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." - Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965)

"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men." - Montessori, Maria

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective." - O'Rourke, P. J.

"There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it." - Unknown