There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.

The soul is healed by being with children.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

It is a wise father that knows his own child

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Children make you want to start life over.

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.