“ He's the King of all the heavensAnd all found here below.To Him, your hearts are like this lakeReflecting in His glow. Alexis York Lumbard
“ Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things. Carew Papritz
“ Don't you remember what your grandfather used to say? That thing about pots and people?""That pots were like people," Alex replied flatly, thinking back to his grandfather carrying a tray of wet fresh… Julia Wills
“ The child, through no fault of its own, and through the very nature of being a child, is egocentric and self-absorbed. Thus, if the daughter does not make her bed, and the mother yells, and the father… Nikki Sex
“ Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the fucking part in writing a book. M.F. Moonzajer
“ I have heard them preach, when I sat in the pew and my feet did not touch the floor, about the final home of the unconverted. In order to impress upon the children the length of time they would probab… Robert G. Ingersoll
“ Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. Wally Lamb
“ This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school. Martin L. Kutscher
“ For while they'd stayed close during the absurd years of his sharp rise, having children had knocked it all into a different arrangement. The minute you had children you closed ranks. You didn't plan… Meg Wolitzer
“ As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives. Asa Don Brown
“ What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has c… Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit. Guy Vanderhaeghe
“ I’m not holding myself out as a model, but I do believe that we in America can ask more of children than we typically do, and they will not only respond to the challenge, but thrive. Amy Chua
“ When we mother well, we teach our children to embrace the moral obligations that build solid relationships, healthy marriages, and secure families. Jani Ortlund
“ All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect again that schools and colleges help in the suppression insofar as they m… Marston Bates
“ Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a time I really… L. Frank Baum
“ I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you. Helen Smith
“ The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of his parents. William Stolzenburg
