“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”
“Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.”
“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”
“Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.”
“How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.”
“We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.”
“Hugs can do great amounts of good -- especially for children.”
“Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.”
“When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.”
“He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.”
“Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.”
“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
“Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.”
“There's no point in being grown up if you cant be childish sometimes.”
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
“There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.”
“Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.”
“The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.”
“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”
“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
“Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
“Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.”
“Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.”
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
“My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.”
“Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.”
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
“There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.”
“Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.”
“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”