A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
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.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Children make you want to start life over.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.
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.
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.
Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.
He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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