~ Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. ~
~ Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. ~
~ Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ~
~ All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. ~
~ Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. ~
~ I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away ~
~ Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for ~
~ The smallest children are nearest to God, as the smallest planets are nearest the sun ~
~ Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. ~
~ I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. ~
~ A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune. ~
~ All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself. ~