Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben 

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Red Buttons 

Our children's children will hear a good story.
Richard Adams  , Watership Down

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Anonymous 

The child is the father of the man.
William Wordsworth 

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

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) 

The soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor Dostoevsky 

The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
Quentin Crisp 

We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
Woodrow Wyatt