Annie Sullivan :
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.

Chinese proverb:
One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.

Garrison Keillor:
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.


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

George Santayana:
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.



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


John Wilmot, Earl of Rchester:
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.


Lydia Maria Child:
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!


Pamela Glenconner:
Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them.
Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them.
Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him.
Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.


Theodore Hesburgh:
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.


William Shakesspearre:
It is a wise father that knows his own child.